Luque Instrumentation

The treatment of scoliosis in muscular dystrophy using modified Luque and Harrington-Luque instrumentation.

We have treated 101 patients with scoliosis secondary to muscular dystrophy over a 13-year period; 64 had Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, 33 spinal muscular atrophy and four congenital muscular dystrophy. The patients underwent a modified Luque (87) or Harrington-Luque instrumentation (14) combined with a limited Moe fusion in all except 27 cases. A mean of 13 levels was instrumented. The mean p...

Luque rod instrumentation in the treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. A comparative study with Harrington instrumentation.

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in 152 patients was treated by Luque L-rod instrumentation and early mobilisation without external support. This series was compared with a matched group of 156 patients treated by Harrington instrumentation and immobilised in an underarm jacket for nine months. All the operations in both groups were performed by one surgeon and the patients were followed prospec...

Instrumentation Systems

Minimal Instrumentation

Feature location is a commonly occurring problem in software reuse and maintenance. In understanding large software systems, Software Engineers need to locate the different software components that work together to provide a specific end user feature. Because of its importance, this problem has generated much interest among software maintenance researchers and a number of different methods of a...

Virtual Instrumentation

3. VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT ARCHITECTURE ................................................................................................4 3.1. SENSOR MODULE ...........................................................................................................................................4 3.2. SENSOR INTERFACE .....................................................................................