Background & Importance: Spinal deformity is one of the most common disorders among the vertebral diseases that results from unnatural curvatures of spine, such as scoliosis and kyphosis. Spinal fusion surgery is used most commonly to treat certain types of spinal deformity. Herein, we reported the efficacy of posterior spinal fusion accompanied by instrumentation in patients with the...

STUDY DESIGN Case series. PURPOSE The objective of this study was to investigate the change in pulmonary function in adult patients with a spinal deformity who underwent spinal corrective surgery. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Degenerative lumbar and/or thoraco-lumbar deformities are is often prominent in adult spinal deformity cases, whereas a thoracic deformity involving the chest wall is incons...

BACKGROUND Chiari II deformity is associated with open spinal dysraphism. A causal relationship has been proposed by McLone and Knepper. This article evaluates that hypothesis. OBJECTIVE To establish the frequency of Chiari II deformity in fetuses with open spinal dysraphism, assess whether meningocele sac neck area and volume influence the severity of posterior fossa changes, and assess whet...

dult spinal deformity is a complex pathologic procA ess with many etiologies and several mechanisms of compensation. A complete understanding of patient-specific spinopelvic alignment is required to differentiate the origin of the deformity from postural compensatory mechanisms and, ultimately, to optimize surgical correction. Specific spinopelvic parameters have been shown to be invaluable in ...

BACKGROUND The importance of spinal rotational and torsional deformity in the etiology and the management of scoliosis are well-recognized. For measuring the posterior spinal component rotation, Ho's method was reported to be reliable. However, there is no practical method to measure the anterior spinal component rotation. Moreover, there is also no method to quantify the spinal torsional defor...

Planning of surgical treatment requires determination of whether osteoarthritis of the spine with lumbar pain should be treated as spinal canal stenosis with or without deformity or as lumbar degenerative scoliosis and clarification of whether treatment should be provided for both. When sagittal spinal alignment is not appropriate, symptoms of adult spinal deformity may be observed. To correct ...

Cohen syndrome is a very rare disease. Complication by spinal deformity has been reported, but management and surgery for spinal deformity in Cohen syndrome has not been previously described. The objective of this study was to examine the outcome of surgical treatment for kyphoscoliosis of Cohen syndrome with a literature review. The patient was a 14-year-old male with the characteristics of Co...

Understandably describe historical and current spinal deformity classifications. Spinal deformities can be divided into three main categories: congenital, idiopathic, secondary deformities. Secondary is by far the largest group. Congenital are generally seen in very early ages may accompanied neural with systemic organ pathologies. Different classification systems based on clinical radiological...