ArticleJournal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma
Active Apex Correction: An overview of the modified SHILLA technique and its clinical efficacy.
Article in Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. It is linked to trial NCT07429656 (Active Apex Correction), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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The trial behind it
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Active Apex Correction (APC) for Early Onset Scoliosis. Early Results of a Pilot Study.
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Preliminary clinical and radiographic outcomes of a hybrid single MCGR and apical sliding construct in severe early-onset scoliosis.Spine deformity · 2026Article
- Current Knowledge of Respiratory Function in Early Onset Scoliosis and the Effect of Its Contemporary Surgical Treatment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- A Novel growth guidance system for early onset scoliosis: a preliminary in vitro study.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Article
- Implant-Related Complications Do Not Interfere with Corrections with the Shilla Technique in Early Onset Scoliosis: Preliminary Results.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A comparison of the inflammatory host response to particulate debris adjacent to unlocked and locked screws of a growth guidance system for early onset scoliosis.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 · 2022Article
- Towards a validated patient-specific computational modeling framework to identify failure regions in traditional growing rods in patients with early onset scoliosis.North American Spine Society journal · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveProvide current overview of Active Apex correction as a new technique for surgical management for Early Onset Scoliosis by dynamically remodulating the apex of the deformity and mitigate loss of correction and presents a comparative correction data against the long-established systems.
methodSummary of the surgical technique and review of the existing retrospective data on APC surgical technique and its comparison against other existing techniques.
resultsRetrospective clinical results showed the efficiency of the APC technique in active remodulation of the apex of the curve with lower incidence of implant related complications in comparison to SHILLA and Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods (MCGR). APC also showed similar results with traditional growing rods without the need for repeated distraction surgeries for 4 year
conclusionActive Apex Control is safe and viable option in surgical management for Early Onset Scoliosis patients even in areas with limited resources.
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