Two Cases of Adolescent Congenital Kyphoscoliosis

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to clarify the usefulness of correction by spinal osteotomy in adolescent congenital kyphoscoliosis. The case were a 19-year-old male and a 16-year-old male. They had severe kyphoscoliosis and some symptoms. We perfomed correction by spinal osteotomy, and they obtained good correction. No neutrogic defict occurred in both cases. In congenital kyphosis, many authors adovocate the importance of early operative treatment. But, there are many late disagnosed cases, because abnormal vertebral bodies do not often present with significant abnormality until the patient reaches adolescence. Because our two cases had some symptoms, they needed some operative treatment. Corrective surgery with spinal osteotomy was a useful treatment to correct spinal deformity in adolescent congenital kyphoscoliosis.