We described a 30-year old man with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VI, manifested by marked kyphoscoliosis and severe myopia, who was admitted to our department because of chest pain. Abnormalities of stature and joint system along with eye changes, occurred starting from the birth and they aggravated gradually. Signs of increased fragility of the skin blood vessels appeared during childhood. At t...

Material and methods Twenty-five female patients with ASD (mean age 64.3 years) who underwent fusion surgery were included for analysis. Diagnosis was lumbar scoliosis in 10 patients, kyphoscoliosis in 11, and kyphosis in 4. Radiographic measurement of spinal alignment and CSA of lumbar trunk muscles including psoas major and lumbar extensor muscles measured by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) ...

A review of fifty patients with wide ranging clinical conditions who had been fitted with one-piece moulded plastic spinal orthoses was carried out to determine prescription criteria for these orthoses. The review showed that patients with scoliosis (idiopathic and paralytic), kyphoscoliosis, as well as a selected number of patients with low back pain derive benefit. Patients with kyphosis and ...

We describe a case of body stalk anomaly which was diagnosed at 10 weeks of gestation on a dating scan. The fetus was visualized within the exocelomic cavity outside an apparently intact amniotic membrane. The fetus displayed multiple anomalies characteristic of body stalk syndrome including a skull and brain defect, abdominal wall defect, kyphoscoliosis and gross deformities of the lower limbs...