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From: Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis – case report of a patient with clinical deterioration after surgery

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Clinical deterioration after surgery for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS). Radiography and clinical appearance of a 15-year old female AIS patient with a double curve of initially 32 degrees thoracic and 28 degrees lumbar. The lumbar curve has been fused although this leads to decompensation and clinical deterioration. The risk for curve progression in this relatively mature patient (15 years of age, three years postmenarchial) was minimal before undergoing surgery!

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Patient Safety in Surgery

ISSN: 1754-9493