Clinical and radiological results of kyphectomy and sliding growing rod surgery technique performed in children with myelomeningocele

Table 2 Pre- versus postoperative kyphosis and scoliosis values

	Preoperative	Early postoperative	Final follow-up	P value*	P value **
Kyphosis	115° (87 to 166)	3.9° (20 to − 10)	5.1° (22 to − 8)	0.000	0.498
Scoliosis	60.2° (115 to 35)	12.9° (32 to 0)	15.7° (34 to 0)	0.000	0.554

*Mann–Whitney U test between preoperative and early postoperative kyphosis and scoliosis value
**Mann–Whitney U test between early postoperative and final follow-up kyphosis and scoliosis value

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