Open AccessCan Tissue Expansion Reconstruction in the Trunk of Children Increase the Risk of Scoliosis?
Author(s) -
Paul Yen,
Marija Bucevska,
Christopher W. Reilly,
Cynthia Verchere
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
plastic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2292-5511
pISSN - 2292-5503
DOI - 10.1177/2292550320933671
Subject(s) - scoliosis , medicine , trunk , population , surgery , ecology , environmental health , biology
We hypothesize that treatment of significant truncal lesions with truncal tissue expanders and subsequent flap surgery in pediatric patients may increase the risk of scoliosis. This study aims to investigate any relationship between tissue expansion (TE) and scoliosis and to compare the prevalence of scoliosis in our tissue expander population to the general population.