STUDY DESIGN Multicenter, prospective, consecutive clinical series. OBJECTIVE To report on neural complications in a prospective cohort study of 1301 children undergoing spinal fusion and instrumentation for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The incidence of neural complications for spinal deformity surgery has been reported to be 0.26% to 17%. However, most ...

BACKGROUND Publications related to scoliosis have increased enormously. A differentiation between publications of major and minor importance has become difficult even for experts. Scientometric data on developments and tendencies in scoliosis research has not been available to date. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the scientific efforts of scoliosis research both quantitatively and...

This paper is about inclusion in the prosperous “winner” networks and practices, caught by the term “knowledge society”. It tells about some people and a location in the Arctic rims of the European Union. The process presented can be described as enacted ambitions for knowledge society inclusion. Among the people involved there have been researchers and professionals of several different nation...

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BACKGROUND An ideal animal model has always been the key to research the pathogenesis and treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), while available methods have obvious disadvantages. The deficiency of melatonin has been proved relating to AIS. In this research, we intended to apply Luzindole, the melatonin antagonist, in bipedal rat model, for the block of combination of melatonin an...

BACKGROUND It is recommended that research in patients with idiopathic scoliosis should focus on short- and long-term patient-centred outcome. The aim of the present study was to evaluate outcome in patients with late-onset juvenile or adolescent idiopathic scoliosis 16 years or more after Boston brace treatment. METHODS 272 (78%) of 360 patients, 251 (92%) women, responded to follow-up exami...

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) presents as an abnormal curvature of spine with vertebral rotation. It may impact the patient for their entire life. Approximately 0.25% of adolescents will require treatment. Brace treatment is the most commonly used non-surgical treatment for AIS. Its goal is stop the progression and maintain the curve at an acceptable level through the high risk growth p...

BACKGROUND Although scoliosis is characterized by lateral deviation of the spine, a 3D deformation actually is responsible for geometric and morphologic changes in the trunk and rib cage. In a vast related medical literature, one can find quite a few scoliosis evaluation indices, which are based on back surface data and are generally measured along three planes. Regardless the large number of s...

STUDY DESIGN Cochrane systematic review. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of bracing in adolescent patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA AIS is a 3-dimensional deformity of the spine. Although AIS can progress during growth and cause a surface deformity, it is usually not symptomatic. However, in adulthood, if the final spinal curvature surpasses ...