Patients with neuromuscular scoliosis, poor trunk control, and pelvic obliquity often require extension of their instrumentation down to their pelvis to better control their spinopelvic deformity. While a variety of methods exist to provide fixation to the pelvis, we describe our technique for anchoring the spine instrumentation distally using sacral-alar-iliac screws.
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