In neurologically intact patients with isolated tuberculosis of the posterior spinal elements, surgical intervention can be of benefit in select patients by reducing instability, deformity and late complications.

Introduction. Spinal scoliosis and kyphosis in elderly people sometimes cause severe low back pain. Surgical methods such as osteotomy are useful for correcting the deformity. However, complications during and after surgery are associated with the osteotomy procedure. In particular, it is difficult to manage deformity correction surgery for patients with Parkinson's disease. Here, we present tw...

Parkinson's disease (PD) patients frequently have several spinal deformities leading to postural instabilities including camptocormia, myopathy-induced postural deformity, Pisa syndrome, and progressive degeneration, all of which adversely affect daily life activities. To improve these postural deformities and relieve the related neurologic symptoms, patients often undergo spinal instrumentatio...

Application of deformity correction spinal surgery has increased substantially over the past three decades in parallel with improvements in surgical techniques. Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IOM) techniques,including somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs), muscle evoked potentials (MEPs), and spontaneous electromyography (free-run EMG), have also improved surgical outcome by reducing the risk...

BACKGROUND Thoracoscopic anterior release has been shown that it can effectively improve spinal flexibility in animal and human cadaveric studies, and has been advocated for use in patients with scoliosis. This prospective case series aims to investigate the improvement of the spinal flexibility and the effectiveness in deformity correction by anterior thoracoscopic release and posterior spinal...

Posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion has become the gold standard for definitive management of children adolescents with deformity. Despite continued innovations designed to improve safety profile this complex surgical undertaking, cord injury resulting loss neurologic function remain a rare but devastating risk. The increasing power combined more aggressive correction strategies puts at...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of thoracic spine curvature on lung parameters in kyphoscoliosis. METHODS Twenty-one patients with kyphoscoliosis were evaluated at the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi, India from January to June 2006 using spirometry, arterial blood gas (ABG), and 6-minute walk test. The degree of spinal deformity was measured by Cobb`s method for angle of scolios...