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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 86:1828 (2004)
© 2004 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Letter to the Editor

Harrington and Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Charles T. Price, MD1

1 Nemours Children's Clinic
83 West Columbia Avenue
Orlando, FL 32806
cprice@nemours.org

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To The Editor:

The article by Helenius et al., "Harrington and Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis. Long-Term Functional and Radiographic Outcomes" (2003;85:2303-9), is an excellent attempt to compare an older method with a newer method. Changes in techniques are often made for theoretical reasons without proven benefit. Then it becomes difficult to perform randomized contemporaneous studies of efficacy. The authors have indicated some of the limitations of this historical method of comparison.

However, it should be noted that there were more than four times the number of lumbar curves (King type-I) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ilkka Helenius, MD, PhD and Mikko Poussa, MD, PhD

Corresponding author:
Ilkka Helenius, MD, PhD
Hospital for Children and Adolescents
Helsinki University Central Hospital
P.O. Box 281
Helsinki FIN-00029 HUS
Finland
ilkka.helenius@helsinki.fi


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