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With great interest, we read the recently published paper “Fusionless All-Pedicle Screws for Posterior Deformity Correction in AIS Immature Patients Permit the Restoration of Normal Vertebral Morphology and Removal of the Instrumentation Once Bone Maturity is Reached” by Burgos et al. [1]. The authors demonstrated that adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients with flexible curves can be treated with temporary posterior instrumentation including the lumbar spine.
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessEditorial by 1 and 2,* 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Postbus 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Spine Surgery, Eifelklinik St. Brigida, Kammerbruchstr. 8, 52152 Simmerath, Germany * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. J. Clin. Med.
1 Introduction Subject-specific finite element (FE) models of the spine are often used in research to evaluate the design of treatments (e.g., when designing cages for spinal fusion (Loenen et al., 2022) and braces for the correction of scoliosis (Vergari et al., 2015)), bone strength (Faulkner et al., 1991) and the progression of load-adaptive processes (Rijsbergen et al., 2018).
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