Minimally Invasive Surgery in Neuromuscular Scoliosis: a Superior Approach for Severely Impaired Patients

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) approach has been shown to decrease blood loss, pain, transfusion rate and hospital stays in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients. This approach has never been reported on neuromuscular patients, who have multiple comorbities and complications and can benefit greatly from this technique. Therefore, we postulate that the MIS approach in neuromuscular patients will have superior outcomes to that of the standard approach.

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