Treatment of congenital spinal deformities in children: Yesterday, today, tomorrow

The paper presents an unsystematized review of technologies, techniques and options for surgical treatment of congenital spinal deformities in children over the past 40 years. The main trends in the surgery of spinal deformities are highlighted: evolution of methods of visual diagnostic, treatment planning, and surgeon action control, introduction of adapted functional status scales and questionnaires for quality of life, hybridization of surgical techniques, evolution of spinal implants and instruments, and progress of anesthetic management. At the same time, new clinical and scientific problems are also discussed in the paper: questions of unifying terminology, planning the volume of treatment, the difficulty of comparing treatment methods and technologies, education, and integration