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ReviewAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2020

Surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Complications.

Omar A Al-Mohrej, Sahar S Aldakhil, Mohammed A Al-Rabiah, Anwar M Al-Rabiah

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Review in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Vertebral body tethering in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with more than 2 years of follow-up- systematic review and meta-analysis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2023
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  7. Evaluation of screw density in Lenke type 1 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: are low and high-density constructs truly comparable?European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2025
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  18. Genetics and pathogenesis of scoliosis.North American Spine Society journal · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Omar A Al-MohrejDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Sahar S AldakhilDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed A Al-RabiahCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Anwar M Al-RabiahDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the fact that spinal surgeries for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) result in good outcomes for most patients, they are not without complications either medically or surgically. Neurologic injury represents the most severe complication and is, as such, the most feared. Further complications include dural tears, peripheral neuropathy, surgical-site infections, implant-related issues, thromboembolic events, visual loss, pseudarthrosis, Crankshaft phenomenon, flatback phenomenon, proximal junctional kyphosis, and mortality. It is vital that all spine surgeons to be fully conversant with the possible complications and the proper responses for each of them.

Indexed as

AIS, adolescent idiopathic scoliosisComplicationsDIC, disseminated intravascular coagulationFusionIdiopathicNIS, National Inpatient SamplePJK, proximal junctional kyphosisPOVL, perio-perative visual lossScoliosisSpineSSI, surgical site infectionVTE, venous thromboembolism

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PMID32153775
PMCPMC7052396

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