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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1973;55:1425-1435.
© 1973 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

Diastematomyelia and Scoliosis

HUGO A. KEIM M.D.1 and ANDREW F. GREENE M.D.1

1 From the New York Orthopaedic Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York

In twenty patients with diastematomyelia, fourteen had associated scoliosis, the curvatures being dependent on bone anomalies of the vertebrae accompanying the diastematomyelia and not on neurological deficits. Because of the danger of cord damage, the tethering bone spike or fibrous cord should be removed before surgery for the scoliosis. Prior to surgery, any patient with scoliosis and with congenital anomalies of the spine should have myelography.


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