OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical and radiographic results of surgical treatment for paralytic scoliosis in myelomeningocele. METHODS: A retrospective study by reviewing medical records and radiographs of patients with myelomeningocele, surgically treated between the years 1999 and 2009. RESULTS: We analyzed the medical records and radiographs of 29 patients. The mean age at surgery was 12.2 years, with a mean follow-up of 3.8 years. The mean preoperative angle of scoliosis was 77º, initially adjusted to 29º that, at the end of follow-up, deteriorated to 34º. The average of the pelvic obliquity was 16º, corrected in the immediate postoperative period to 10º, and in the late postoperative period to 13º. The trunk decompensation average was 117 mm, initially adjusted to 67 mm and, at final follow-up, deteriorated to 98 mm. CONCLUSIONS: Patients in which the instrumentation was extended to the pelvis, obtained better results for all related changes over time, namely, scoliosis, pelvic obliquity and decompensation of the trunk, except for the loss of scoliosis correction that was lower in patients not undergoing pelvic fixation.
Myelomeningocele; Scoliosis; Scoliosis
