Ever since I found I needed revision surgery I have been researching Scoliosis surgery. I have seen countless x-rays but never seen instrumentation like mine.
I have been told I have a Luque Harrington Rod (singular, could be Harrington Luque?) and I have a copy of my x-rays here at home but don't know how to get them online, so I'll try and describe my instrumentation and see if anyone knows what I am going on about!
My first surgery was in 1991. I have a single rod going from T2 - L2, it has a hook at the top T2 and another at L2 and you can see a rachet as with a Harrington Rod but then thats when it gets confusing ....I have no screws at all, but at every vertebrae along the fusion I have a wire twisted around part of the vertebra itself and then around the rod (I think 12 or 13 in total).
It reminds me of when you grow tomatoes and when they get too tall and thin you put bamboo poles in the ground and twist wire around the stalk and the bamboo to hold the plant up
Anyone ever had this or know anyone who has please?
Thanks,
Kat x
I have been told I have a Luque Harrington Rod (singular, could be Harrington Luque?) and I have a copy of my x-rays here at home but don't know how to get them online, so I'll try and describe my instrumentation and see if anyone knows what I am going on about!
My first surgery was in 1991. I have a single rod going from T2 - L2, it has a hook at the top T2 and another at L2 and you can see a rachet as with a Harrington Rod but then thats when it gets confusing ....I have no screws at all, but at every vertebrae along the fusion I have a wire twisted around part of the vertebra itself and then around the rod (I think 12 or 13 in total).
It reminds me of when you grow tomatoes and when they get too tall and thin you put bamboo poles in the ground and twist wire around the stalk and the bamboo to hold the plant up
Anyone ever had this or know anyone who has please?
Thanks,
Kat x
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