PEDICLE SCREW FIXATION - AN OVERTREATMENT IN SPINAL-DISEASES

The use of pedicle screw fixation can be considered as a mile-stone in developments in spinal surgery in the past decade because of its bene fits in the field of correction of spinal deformities due to scoliosis , following fractures, in the treatment of spinal rumours and in some cases of spondylolisthesis. Their widest use, however, has been in the treatment of degenerative disc disease for which its continued use - not only becasuse of a higher morbidity - must be brought into questio n.