Correction of Congenital Kyphosis

Enguer Beraldo Garcia^1,2,3,5*, Liliane Faria Garcia^2,3, Enguer Beraldo Garcia Jr³, Marcos Felipe Camarinha^3,4, Roberto Garcia Gonçalves^2,5, Juliana Garcia Camarinha³, Eduardo Beraldo Garcia^2,5, Saulo Terror Giesbrecht^2,5 & Ramires Fahfe Sampaio Santos²

¹Graduate in Master's and Doctorate, Federal University MG, Brazil
²Spine Group of the Santa Casa, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
³Institute of the Vertebral Spine of Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
⁴Member of the Brazilian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, Brazil
⁵Member of the Brazilian Society of the Spine, Brazil

Enguer Beraldo Garcia, Institute of the Vertebral Spine, Av. Francisco Sales, 427, Floresta, CEP: 30150220, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Keywords: Kyphosis; Scoliosis; Congenital; Surgery; Osteotomy; Fixation; Correction; Deformity

Abstract

Introduction
The reported case is female, black, operated at 11 years of age, with 90° kyphosis at a right angle of T11 / T12 / L1, due to defect of formation and segmentation.
Material and Method
Surgical correction of anterior and posterior hyperkinesis, with long fixation of T7 to L5, short arthrodesis only in T10 to L2, was performed after 6 months, the terminal ends of the synthesis was removed, and the fixation was only in the segment with arthrodesis.
Conclusion
The association of the two surgical approaches in this case was an excellent option.

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