Scoliosis Surgical Procedure – Video-Assisted Thoracoplasty (VAT) - Rick Sasso, MD

Scoliosis Surgical Procedure – Video-Assisted Thoracoplasty (VAT)

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 by Rick Sasso, MD

Often time’s patients that have idiopathic scoliosis may also have a visible rib deformity that may be present following corrective spine surgery. The traditional spine surgical procedure to correct this has been open thoracoplasty. A newer, minimally invasive procedure used is video- assisted thoracoplasty. This procedure is less invasive than the traditional spine surgical procedure.

This abstract that I co-authored summarizes this procedure and the clinical results