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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 81:741-2 (1999)
© 1999 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

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Metal Mania: Fact or Fiction?*

Robert B. Winter, M.D.

In 1960, when I was a second-year resident in orthopaedic surgery, I was sent to Gillette Children's Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, for a six-month rotation in children's orthopaedics. Dr. John Moe was the Chief of Staff and also the Chief of the Spine Service.

About eight weeks after I began my rotation, I had the opportunity to scrub in on an operation on the first patient with idiopathic scoliosis at Gillette Children's Hospital to be managed with Harrington instrumentation. The operative team consisted of Dr. Paul Harrington, Dr. John Moe, Dr. Walter Blount, Dr. Verne Nickel, Dr. William Bickel (the Chief of Scoliosis Surgery at the Mayo Clinic), and me.

The operation was performed by Dr. Harrington, and a beautiful correction was safely achieved. From that moment onward, Harrington instrumentation with a Moe facet arthrodesis became the standard of care for scoliotic patients at Gillette. We quickly learned that, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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