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Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis – to operate or not? A debate article by Hans-Rudolf Weiss; Shay Bess; Man Sang Wong; Vikas Patel; Deborah Goodall; Evalina Burger is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) represents a rare condition with a potentially detrimental impact on young patients. Despite vast clinical research and published treatment guidelines and algorithms, the optimal therapeutic choice for these patients remains highly controversial. While advocates of early surgery emphasize the benefits of surgical deformity correction with regard to physical and psychological outcome, the opponents base their arguments on the high risk of complications and a lack of documented subjective long-term outcome. In the present paper, the authors were invited to debate the opposite positions of "pro" versus "contra" surgical treatment of AIS, based on the currently available evidence and published guidelines.
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- Author
- Hans-Rudolf Weiss; Shay Bess; Man Sang Wong; Vikas Patel; Deborah Goodall; Evalina Burger
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2007-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1754-9493)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)