Quantitative analysis of local bone graft harvested from the posterior elements during posterior spinal fusion in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study analyses the quantity of local bone graft obtained from different anatomical parts of the posterior elements during corrective surgery for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis patients.

Summary of background data

Locally harvested autogenous bone graft eliminates possible donor site morbidity and has all the important basic bone graft properties such as osteoinductivity, osteogenicity and osteoconductivity. Its usage was reported to be adequate to achieve fusion but none had quantifies the amount of local bone graft harvested.

Methods

Total of 40 AIS patients were recruited in the study. All posterior spinal fusion surgeries were performed by the same dual surgeons and same anesthetist with a single observer collecting and measuring bone grafts harvest

SUBMITTER: Choo QQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324765 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature