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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 82:1197 (2000)
© 2000 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Letters to The Editor

Pinealectomy and Scoliosis

Tamás Illés, M.D., Ph.D., Gyözö Horvath, M.D., Keith M. Bagnall, Ph.D., V. James Raso, M.Sc., Marc Moreau, M.D., James Mahood, M.D., Xiaoping Wang, M.D. and Jie Zhao, M.D.

Corresponding author: Tamás Illés, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University Medical School of Pécs Ifjúság Street 13 Pécs H-7643, Hungary
Corresponding author: Keith M. Bagnall, Ph.D. Division of Anatomy and Department of Surgery University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada E-mail address: kbagnall@med.ualberta.ca

To The Editor:

The article "The Effects of Melatonin Therapy on the Development of Scoliosis After Pinealectomy in the Chicken" (81-A: 191-199, Feb. 1999), by Bagnall et al., is a very well designed study of the "pinealectomized chicken" model that had the intention of addressing almost all of the main controversial issues in this field. First of all, we congratulate the authors for their work, which we consider to be one of the most comprehensive studies to date, but we wish to make remarks concerning two aspects.

Our first comment concerns the ratio of scoliosis. On the basis of our experience of operating on more than 200 broiler chickens, we can report that the scoliosis induced by pinealectomy is in inverse relation to the number of days between hatching and pinealectomy. When we carried out pinealectomy on the first day after hatching, we found scoliosis in more than 80 percent . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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