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Treatment of congenital spinal deformities in children: yesterday, today, tomorrow

https://doi.org/10.14531/ss2020.1.15-24

Abstract

The paper presents an unsystematized review of technologies, techniques and options for surgical treatment of congenital spinal deformities in children over the past 40 years. The main trends in the surgery of spinal deformities are highlighted: evolution of methods of visual diagnostic, treatment planning, and surgeon action control, introduction of adapted functional status scales and questionnaires for quality of life, hybridization of surgical techniques, evolution of spinal implants and instruments, and progress of anesthetic management. At the same time, new clinical and scientific problems are also discussed in the paper: questions of unifying terminology, planning the volume of treatment, the difficulty of comparing treatment methods and technologies, education, and integration.

About the Authors

S. O. Ryabykh
The Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center for Reconstructive Traumatology and Orthopedics
Russian Federation

Sergey Olegovich Ryabykh, DMSc, Head of the Clinic of Spine Pathology and Rare Diseases, AOSpine RF Education Officer Ortho 

6 Marii Ulyanovoy str., Kurgan, 640014, Russia



E. V. Ulrikh
St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University
Russian Federation

Eduard Vladimirovich Ulrikh, MD, DMSc, Prof.

2, Litovskaya str., St. Ptersburg, 194100, Russia



A. Yu. Mushkin
St. Petersburg Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology
Russian Federation

Aleksandr Yuryevich Mushkin, DMSc, Prof., chief researcher, Head of Clinic of Pediatric Surgery and Orthopedics, Head of the Scientific and Clinical Centre for Spinal Pathology, Coordinator of the «Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis» research direction, post-chairman of AOSpine RF

2–4 Ligovsky prospekt, St. Petersburg, 191036, Russia



A. V. Gubin
The Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center for Reconstructive Traumatology and Orthopedics
Russian Federation

Alexandr Vadimovich Gubin, DMSc, Director, AOSpineRF Education Officer Ortho, chairman of AOSpine RF

6 Marii Ulyanovoy str., Kurgan, 640014, Russia



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Ryabykh S.O., Ulrikh E.V., Mushkin A.Yu., Gubin A.V. Treatment of congenital spinal deformities in children: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Russian Journal of Spine Surgery (Khirurgiya Pozvonochnika). 2020;17(1):15-24. https://doi.org/10.14531/ss2020.1.15-24



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