METHOD FOR TWO-STAGED SURGICAL TREATMENT OF SPINAL DEFORMITY WITH USING AUTOPRESERVED RESECTED RIB AUTOGRAFT AND DRY VERTICAL HALOTRACTION Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B17/56 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: ventral release from a toracotomy approach at an apex is accompanied by excising the seventh, or eighth, or ninth rib to gain an access in the form of an autograft 15-20 cm long. An excised rib autograft is placed into a pocket bed pre-formed from the toracotomy incision in subcutaneous fat and fixed to the subiculum to be used as the autograft; the excised rib autograft is underrun for a period from the moment of the final stage of dorsal correction. The second stage of the surgical treatment is preceded by vertical dry halotraction under the patient's body standing in the space of a therapeutic four-wheel frame equipped with a telescopic arm for the patient's head suspension. At the stage of the dorsal correction, the excised rib autograft is removed through a 2-3-cm incision along the postoperative toracotomy scar from the pocket bed in the subcutaneous fat, cleaned from soft tissues, treated in the antiseptic solution, and placed onto the decorticated posterior elements of the operated spine.

EFFECT: adequate spinal fusion involving the configuration recovery of the spinal canal.

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