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Early Surgical Intervention of Congenital Hemivertebra in Young Children

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Congenital Hemivertebra
Interventions
Procedure: posterior hemivertebra resection
Procedure: conservative treatment+ delayed posterior hemivertebra resection
Registration Number
NCT04527406
Lead Sponsor
Children's Hospital of Fudan University
Brief Summary

Early treatment of congenital hemivertebrae is very important. The investigators design this study to figure out how early hemivertebrae resection be apply to children. Children aged 3-5 years old diagnosed as congenital hemivertebrae will be randomly divided into early operation group and control group. The early operation group will undergo posterior hemivertebra resection. The control group received brace plaster fixation to reduce the progression of scoliosis, and then will undergo operation after 5 years old. Primary Outcome Measure is the length of spine surgery.

Detailed Description

Early diagnosis and early effective treatment of congenital hemivertebrae can correct the deformities.Therefore, traditionally, children with a clear diagnosis should be fixed with a brace to delay the aggravation of scoliosis and then undergo surgery after 5 years of age. The design of this study is to conduct a single-center randomized controlled study. Children aged 3-5 years old diagnosed as congenital hemivertebrae will be randomly divided into the early operation group and the control group. The early operation group will undergo posterior hemivertebra resection. The control group received brace plaster fixation to reduce the progression of scoliosis, and posterior scoliosis correction will be performed after the age was over 5 years old. The primary outcome measures are the length of spine surgery for the two groups of children. The secondary outcome measures are change of scoliosis cobb angle, by comparing preoperative and postoperative cobb angle changes. It is expected that the early treatment group will shorten the length of surgery due to the smaller degree of scoliosis. Our research is expected to broaden the age-adaptation of classic spinal surgery in the field of pediatric spine.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria
  • Single-segment thoracic or lumbar hemivertebrae scoliosis diagnosed by X-ray and CT.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Diagnosed with syndrome of scoliosis, osteochondrodysplasia, multi-segment hemivertebrae deformity, cervical hemivertebrae deformity

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Early surgical groupposterior hemivertebra resectionThe subjects in this group received early surgical treatment, and they are arranged to be admitted to the hospital for surgical treatment after admission. The operation choice is posterior hemivertebrae resection + posterior pedicle screw placement + scoliosis correction.
Traditional surgical treatmentconservative treatment+ delayed posterior hemivertebra resectionThis group of subjects received conservative treatment with custom-made braces to delay the progression of scoliosis. It is planned to use the classic posterior hemivertebrae resection + posterior pedicle screw placement + scoliosis correction to complete the correction around the age of 5.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Duration of surgeryThe operation time: from the beginning of the surgical skinning to the end of the surgical suture

The length of posterior hemivertebra resection operation time, acquired in the operation record from hospital

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
change of scoliosis cobb angleintraoperative

X-ray measurement of scoliosis cobb angle, by compare the preoperative and postoperative cobb angle changes to obtain the degree of scoliosis correction

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