Abstract
Study Design
Retrospectively reviewed surgeries between 2011 and 2015 of patients who underwent posterior spinal deformity instrumentation with constructs involving fusions to pelvis and encompassing at least five levels.
Objective
Measure the radiographic outcomes of coronal malalignment (CM) after use of an intraoperative T square shaped instrument in posterior spinal deformity surgeries with at least five levels of fusion and extension to pelvis.
Background
Neuromuscular children found to benefit from intraoperative T square technique to help achieve proper coronal spinal balance with extensive fusions. This intraoperative technique used in our posterior spine deformity instrumentation surgeries with the aforementioned parameters.
Methods
There were 50 patients: n = 16 with intraoperative T square and n = 34 no–T square shaped device. Subgroups divided based on greater than 20 mm displacement and greater than 40 mm displacement of the C7 plumb line to the central sacral vertical line on either side in preoperative radiographs. We analyzed the demographics and the pre- and postoperative radiographic parameters of standing films: standing CM (displacement of C7 plumb line to central sacral vertical line), and major coronal Cobb angles in total sample and subgroups and compared T square shaped device with no–T square shaped device use by analysis of variance. A p value ≤.05 is statistically significant.
Results
In the total sample, though postoperative CM mean was not statistically different, we observed greater CM corrections in patients where a T square shaped device was used (70%) versus no–T square shaped device used (18%). In >20 mm and >40 mm subgroups, the postoperative mean CM values were statistically lower for the patients where a T square shaped device was used, p = .016 and p = .003, respectively. Cobb corrections were statistically higher for T square shaped device use in both >20 mm and >40 mm subgroups, 68%, respectively.
Conclusion
The intraoperative T square shaped device technique had a positive effect on the amount of spine coronal malalignment correction after its use and for lumbar and thoracic coronal Cobb angles.
Level of Evidence
Level III.
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Author disclosures: SK (none); UM (none); HY (none); RAT (personal fees from Styker Spine and Vertiflex, outside the submitted work); WFL (grants from DePuy, Medtronic, IntegraLife, Sigmus, Inc., Spinal Kinetics, Inc., K2M, Inc., Providence Technologies, Stryker Spine, and Vertebral Technologies, Inc., outside the submitted work).
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Kurra, S., Metkar, U., Yirenkyi, H. et al. Assessment of Coronal Spinal Alignment for Adult Spine Deformity Cases After Intraoperative T Square Shaped Use. Spine Deform 6, 267–272 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspd.2017.10.012
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