The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
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Lateral distraction injuries represent a very rare pattern of injury with only five cases reported in the literature. Such injuries are a result of high-energy trauma and have a high association with severe concomitant injuries. All previous reports of this injury are in skeletally mature individuals, and this has not been previously described in young children. ⋯ In this case, we describe a lateral distraction injury in a young child secondary to improper seat belt use. This represents the first description of such an injury in this age group, and this case highlights the spectrum of injury caused by improper seat belt use in the pediatric population.
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Although complete resection is the preferred surgical treatment for ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF), it sometimes results in the floating method because of adhesion to, or ossification of, the dura mater. It is difficult to anticipate the degree of floating, and if the floated ossification is large, decompression of the spinal cord may not be sufficient. ⋯ Our present study is the first report that showed OLF was reduced after the floating method. Reduction of the floated ossification was observed 5 weeks after the operation.
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Knowledge of sagittal spinopelvic parameters is important for the treatment of cerebral palsy (CP) because they differ in the normal population and can induce symptoms. ⋯ A significant difference was observed in the sagittal spinopelvic parameters in the CP and normal control groups and was possibly related to the symptoms. The study shows that the evaluations of sagittal spinopelvic parameters could be useful during the treatment of disorders associated with CP.
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Pedicle screws have shown to be a safe and effective method of spinal fixation, offering superior multiplanar correction compared with hooks or sublaminar wires in selected situations. Though only food and drug administration (FDA) approved in the adolescent population, they are commonly used in an off-label manner in the preadolescent population. ⋯ The complication rates in the young pediatric population associated with the off-label use of pedicle screws for spinal fusions are not statistically different from the complication rates associated with the FDA-approved adolescent population.
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Fazal A, Yoo A, Bendo JA. Does the presence of the nerve root sedimentation sign on MRI correlate with the operative level in patients undergoing posterior lumbar decompression for lumbar stenosis? Spine J 2013;13:837-42 (in this issue).