Is it Safe to Save Levels and Choose the Lowest Instrumented Vertebra as Touched Vertebra While Selectively Fusing Lenke 1/2 Curves? A Proportional Meta-Analysis of Existing Evidence.

Syed Ifthekar Kaustubh Ahuja Pudipeddi Venkata Sudhakar Samarth MittalGagandeep YadavPankaj KandwalBhaskar SarkarNikhil Goyal

Published in: Global spine journal (2022)

The evaluation of SV group and TV group as LIV for selective thoracic fusions in AIS reveals a comparable outcome in terms of curve correction, patient satisfaction scores and complication rates. The TV can be chosen safely as the LIV especially in type A and B Lenke 1&2 curves, as it saves more motion segments when compared to SV.

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