Neupsy Key

Type of volume depletion deformity Thoracic deficit Mechanism of lung volume loss Examples I. Absent ribs and exotic scoliosis Unilateral thoracic hypoplasia Lung prolapses into the chest with volume loss…

Authors Number of patients Mean initial elongation pre- to post-initial (cm) Mean growth of instrumented area (cm) during treatment Mean total length increase of the spine (cm) T1–S1 increase (cm/year)…

Fig. 31.1 Black: osseous part of the vertebrae. Dark grey: growing structures Light grey: disc structures. (a) The HV to be removed. (b) The surrounding growing structures of the HV…

Fig. 48.1 Dr. Robert Campbell holding Clay Skaggs, 2001, Los Angeles (Reproduced with permission of Children’s Orthopaedic Center, Los Angeles) There are many potential benefits for using ribs as anchors…

Fig. 49.1 PRSS instrumentation: (a) implant components; (b) surgical tools The screw hooks are fixed on the lamina, which minimizes the risk of dislodgement of the hooks. Plate rod is…

Fig. 30.1 (a, b) A 4-year-old boy with collapsing kyphoscoliosis due to congenital myopathy (March 2007); (c, d) scoliosis curves measuring 95 and 90°, with 85° kyphosis; (e) correction after…

Fig. 11.1 The anterior formation defect (a) is accompanied with fused lamina on the posterior spine (b) Fig. 11.2 The level of the anterior (a) and the posterior (b) vertebral…

Fig. 23.1 Radiograph of a skeletally immature patient demonstrating sagittal plane pelvic parameters. PI pelvic incidence, PT pelvic tilt, SS sacral slope These sagittal spinopelvic values for children have been…

Fig. 45.1 (a) Radiographs from preclinical trial of first implant design, knee hemiepiphyseal staples with shortened tines. Left: Immediate postoperative. Right: 6 weeks postoperative. Bone fixation was obviously insufficient, but…

Fig. 6.1 Stationary mount used to photograph the specimens. Shown is a rib model on the grid used to obtain high-resolution photographs in six projections A total of 6226 high-resolution…