Medicine:Cotrel–Dubousset instrumentation

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Short description: Treatment approach for scoliosis
Cotrel–Dubousset instrumentation
Specialtyorthopedic

Introduced in 1983, Cotrel–Dubousset Instrumentation is a treatment approach to scoliosis. Unlike Harrington rods, this treatment is more than just an osteodistraction mechanism and allows correction of some of the features of scoliosis untreatable by Harrington rods, such as rib hump.[1][2]

References

  1. P.J. Cundy (1990). "Cotrel–Dubousset instrumentation and vertebral rotation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis". J Bone Joint Surg Br 72-B (4): 670–4. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.72B4.2380225. PMID 2380225. 
  2. Norbert Boos; Lori A. Dolan; Stuart L. Weinstein (2007). "Long-Term Clinical and Radiographic Results of Cotreldubousset Instrumentation of Right Thoracic Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis". Iowa Orthopaedic Journal 27: 40–46. PMID 17907428.