Surgical advances in the treatment of neuromuscular scoliosis

Table 3 Decade 1980-1989

Decade-Year of publication	Authors	Patients (n)	Neuromuscular condition	Instrumentation	Complications (number of patients)
1980-1989
1982	Allen et al[13]	10	Cerebral palsy	L-rod
1986	Sponseller et al[14]	34	Cerebral palsy	Interspinous process instrumentation
1988	Gersoff et al[16]	33	Cerebral palsy	L-rod	5 deep wound infections
					Complications rate: 15%
1989	Broom et al[18]	74	Various	L-rod	1 death;
					3 deep wound infections;
					2 pressure sores;
					6 sets of broken rods;
					1 distal rotation and migration of the rod
					Complications rate: 18%
1989	Boachie-Adjei et al[17]	46	Various	L-rod	3 cases of pseudarthrosis;
					3 deaths
					Complications rate: 13%

Most significant works published between 1980 and 1989.