Background and purpose - Routine outcome measurement has been shown to improve performance in several fields of healthcare. National spine surgery registries have been initiated in 5 Nordic countries. However, there is no agreement on which outcomes are essential to measure for adolescent and young adult patients with a spinal deformity. The aim of this study was to develop a core outcome set (...

OBJECTIVE To investigate: (a) associations between the direction of scoliosis, direction of pelvic obliquity, direction of windswept deformity and side of hip subluxation/ dislocation in non-ambulant people with cerebral palsy; and (b) the lateral distribution of these postural asymmetries. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING Posture management services in three centres in t...

STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analyses on a consecutive, prospective cohort. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ability of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)-Schwab Adult Spinal Deformity Classification to group patients by widely used health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) scores and examine possible confounding variables. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The SRS-Schwab Adult Spinal Deformity Classifica...

Background The treatment of congenital spinal deformities is a real challenge. The modern standard of treatment includes surgical interventions intended to correct or fuse the spine. In some cases, such an approach is impossible because of severe comorbidities. We hypothesized that a Cheneau brace might be effective in young patients with congenital spinal deformity. This paper is a continuatio...

EMG is an important clinical electrodiagnostic tool to assess function of neuromuscular tissue. It assesses spinal motor nerve roots and determines correct placement of hardware in surgical procedures, including cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral spinal decompression, instrumentation, and fixation of spinal deformity. Evoked potentials provide information on vascular compromise of the spinal c...

STUDY DESIGN: A description of pedicle subtraction osteotomy for correction of kyphotic deformity of the cervical-thoracic spine and a prospective evaluation of the surgical outcomes. OBJECTIVES: To describe the surgical technique and the postoperative results of pedicle subtraction osteotomy in the upper thoracic spine and the cervical-thoracic junction. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Pedicle sub...

BACKGROUND Jeune syndrome (asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy) is an autosomal recessive disorder with constriction and narrowing of the thorax. To our knowledge, there are no reports regarding spinal deformity and correction in Jeune syndrome. Herein, we report two cases of spinal correction in patients with Jeune syndrome, and review the literature. CASE PRESENTATION We experienced cases of sp...

Picture 1A. Initialy sagital T2-weighted MRI of the spine showed a slight deviation of the spinal cord at T2/3 level (arrow). Picture 1B. Five years later, spinal MRI shows that the anterior displacement of the spinal cord is worsened with deformity on sagital view. Picture 1C. Axial MRI shows spinal cord is displaced ventraly and to the left without any tumor in the subarachnoid space. Picture...

Study Design Retrospective cross-sectional study. Clinical Question What is the prevalence of cervical spondylosis (CS) and thoracolumbar (TL) spinal deformity in an administrative database during a 4-year study period? Is the prevalence of CS or TL deformity higher in patients who have the other spine diagnosis compared with the overall study population? Are patients with both diagnoses more l...

BACKGROUND Increased awareness regarding the importance of the sagittal spinal profile has led to more aggressive correction of sagittal malalignment. The utilization trends of pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) for sagittal plane correction in spinal deformity surgery have not been well characterized. METHODS A commercially available database (PearlDiver, Inc) was queried for both Private P...