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Please somebody may explain me what are the growing rods?.
I read some posts mentioning this but I always used to think that this growing rods were together with fusion. But in the last post that I read I found the opposite. This last post described a procedure similar to those I read about the VEPTER. Can anybody explain me the difference?
When Gaby was at surgery for posterior fusion of her hemivertebraes and correct her thoracic curve ( 3 years old) she was Luque instrumented with two posterior rods and it seems to me that the doctor used the growing rod name. What I show in the Xrays in this post is what i thought that the growing rod were. For what I read in the last post I must be wrong and I shouldn't know at all what the growing rods are.
Can anybody share an Xray with me for best understanding?
Best regards
Please somebody may explain me what are the growing rods?.
I read some posts mentioning this but I always used to think that this growing rods were together with fusion. But in the last post that I read I found the opposite. This last post described a procedure similar to those I read about the VEPTER. Can anybody explain me the difference?
When Gaby was at surgery for posterior fusion of her hemivertebraes and correct her thoracic curve ( 3 years old) she was Luque instrumented with two posterior rods and it seems to me that the doctor used the growing rod name. What I show in the Xrays in this post is what i thought that the growing rod were. For what I read in the last post I must be wrong and I shouldn't know at all what the growing rods are.
Can anybody share an Xray with me for best understanding?
Best regards
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