Surgical correction of subaxial kyphosis in a child with type I neurofibromatosis: rare clinical case and literature review

Surgical correction of subaxial kyphosis in a child with type I neurofibromatosis: rare clinical case and literature review

The paper presents a case of rapidly developing severe cervical kyphosis in a 5-year-old child which was the first clinical manifestation of type I neurofibromatosis (NF1). Surgical correction was carried out in two stages with preliminary hardware halo-traction and subsequent reconstruction of...

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Main Authors: Denis B. Malamashin, Mikhail M. Shchelkunov, Maksim A. Krasnikov, Aleksandr Yu. Mushkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Federal State Budgetary Institution "Novosibirsk Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics n.a. Ya.L. Tsivyan" 2018-06-01
Series:Хирургия позвоночника
Subjects:
cervical spine
children
surgical treatment
cervical kyphosis
type i neurofibromatosis
spine deformity
Online Access:https://www.spinesurgery.ru/jour/article/view/1464/1411

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