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Fig.1 | BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

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From: More preoperative flexibility implies adequate neural pliability for curve correction without prophylactic untethering in scoliosis patients with asymptomatic tethered spinal cord, a retrospective study

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A simple flowchart of adaptability of one-stage posterior correction for scoliosis combined with asymptomatic tethered spinal cord without a prophylactic untethering. All the patients who planed to under go a surgical correction should accept rigorous neurological physical examination (including sensation, muscle strength, physiological reflexes and pathological reflexes) and imaging examination (including radiograph, CT and MRI). A tethered cord can be found with a MRI examination. The patients who had no symptoms while they underwent any position of radiograph could accept correction without a prophylactic untethering. Additionally, the patients who had complaints but with a normal related-examination, such as EMG and urodynamic test, also could accept one-stage correction without a cord release

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