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More than 20-year follow-up Harrington instrumentation in the treatment of severe idiopathic scoliosis.

On the basis of our own experience, we would like to support the results reported in the article “ Minimum 20-year follow-up results of Harrington rod fusion for idiopathic scoliosis” . The number of patients that we evaluated and the duration of their follow-up are almost the same as those reported in the article. The only difference is that we evaluated only the patients with severe idiopathic scoliosis and that there was a difference in the application of Harrington rod. It is obvious from the report, especially from Fig. 3, that the investigators did not contour the Harrington rod in the sagittal plane. We, on the other hand, always did it. One of our authors (M.P.), i.e., the one who operated on all the patients, used French rod bender to contour Harrington rod in sagittal plane depending on the length of spondylodesis

scoliosis; fusion; Harrington

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