Usefulness of Cotrel Dubousset's universal instrumentation in dorsolumbar pathology. Preliminary report.

The authors report about the use of Cotrel and Dubousset osteosynthesis, which had been designed for operative treatment of spinal deformations, for other dorso-lumbar pathology in 15 of their own patients with due to trauma or tumour instable lesions. They underline its advantages in application to trauma or tumour cases.