Jean dubousset biography
Prof Jean Dubousset is a highly experienced Spine Surgeon and a key member of the eccElearning Spine Surgery Education Programme faculty.!
Past, present, and future in pediatric spinal surgery
Introduction
The development of spinal surgery at the pediatric age followed in fact the one of general spinal surgery thanks mainly the improvement of the anesthesiology techniques as well as the post-operative care.
Dubousset, Jean was born on November 16, in Montferrand, France.
Initially, the spinal deformities in children and adolescents were treated not operatively from a long time by external corrections tractions cast and braces of various nature. But it appears only slowly that the surgical approach of the spine done sub-periosteal, gave, either in the back or even in the front, an early fusion of the approached area, with sometimes disastrous consequences because impairing the normal balanced growth of the immature spine as well as the surrounding structures as the thorax and lung development with a restriction upon the pulmonary function.
Subsequently the limitation of extensive spinal surgery on the growing spine appeared very clearly with time.
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