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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 94-B, Issue SUPP_XXVII | Pages 11 - 11
1 Jun 2012
Cheung K Samartzis D Yu K Natarajan D Cheung W Wong Y Shen J Luk K Qiu G
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Introduction

With the use of each pedicle screw for surgical correction of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), there is an increase in instrumentation-related costs, operative time, risk of neural injury, and overall health-care expenses. As such, alternate level screw strategy (ALSS) has been reported as a potential alternative to contiguous multilevel screw strategy (CMSS). Moreover, studies have shown the importance in accounting for the flexibility of the curve based on the fulcrum bending radiograph when assessing postoperative curve correction. Therefore, this study addressed a radiographic and cost analysis comparing CMSS with ALSS for the treatment of thoracic AIS with titanium screws and rod application.

Methods

77 patients with AIS underwent surgery (range 6–15 levels). 35 patients received CMSS, which was characterised as bilateral screw fixation at every level. 42 patients underwent ALSS, which entailed bilateral screw fixation at alternate levels. Titanium rods were used in all cases. Preoperative and postoperative posteroanterior and fulcrum bending radiographic Cobb angles were obtained for all patients. The fulcrum flexibility and the fulcrum bending correction index (FBCI) were assessed. Cost analysis was also done.


Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 94-B, Issue SUPP_XXVII | Pages 39 - 39
1 Jun 2012
Fan Y Cheung KMC Chan D Cheung W Cheah KSE Sham P Luk KDK Song Y
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Introduction

The cause of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is still not known. Although several candidate gene studies and linkage analyses have been done, no causal relationship has yet been established. To our knowledge, we report the first case-control based genome-wide association study (GWAS) for this trait.

Methods

The study was undertaken in a set of 196 cases with a specific AIS phenotype (based on Lenke's classification) in southern China, and in 401 controls without radiological evidence of scoliosis.