The Department of Photogrammetry Warsaw University of Technology has been involved in use of in industrial and biomedical applications moiré topography for over ten years. Most of this effort has been inspired by a particular application, namely, the determination of the surface topography of the human back for the detection and diagnosis of spinal deformity. The moiré technique is recommended ...

BACKGROUND The literature regarding pulmonary function in adult patients with spinal deformity is limited, and the effect of spinal deformity surgery on pulmonary function has not been clearly understood. We hypothesized that adult patients with spinal deformity who had preoperative pulmonary impairment (a percent-predicted value of <65% forced expiratory volume in one second [FEV1] as measured...

Introduction: Back pain and spinal deformity are common presentation in majority of senile osteoporoticvertebral compression fracture. Vertebroplasty provides relief with correction andleast period hospital stay.Material Method: Twenty patients underwent vertebroplasty clinical evaluation was doneby recording the VAS score done preoperatively after surgery.Result: Percutaneous 1 year followup.V...

Introduction Pseudotail is uncommon congenital malformation of the spine, it contains bone, cartilage, notochord and elements of spinal cord. Usually presented as protrusion of the coccygeal vertebra. It may come as solo deformity or in association of tethered cord, myelomeningoceol and other spine deformity, can be part of syndrome, never been reported. It’s different from true tail, which usu...

Early onset deformity of the spine and chest wall (initiated <8 years of age) is associated with increased morbidity at adulthood relative to adolescent onset deformity of comparable severity. Presumably, inhibition of thoracic growth during late stage alveolarization leads to an irreversible loss of pulmonary growth and thoracic function; however the natural history of this disease from onset ...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study. OBJECTIVE Rate of neurological injuries is widely reported for spinal deformity surgery. However, few have included the influence of the subtypes and severity of the deformity, or anterior versus posterior corrections. The purpose of this study is to quantify these risks. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The risk of neurological injuries was examined in a singl...

Background and Objectives: Braces are common non-surgical treatments for the management of spinal deformities in adolescents. There factors that may determine success deformities. Hence aim current study was to investigate relationship between amount time brace wear its psychological effects level social participation adolescents with deformity. Subjects Methods we examined undergoing treatment...

BACKGROUND This review summarizes what is known about the pathological processes (e.g. structural and functional changes), by which spinal curvatures develop and evolve into spinal deformities. METHODS Comprehensive review of articles (English language only) published on 'scoliosis,' whose content yielded data on the pathological changes associated with spinal curvatures. Medline, Science Cit...

The effect of intraoperative cell salvage (ICS) in surgical correction of spinal deformity remained controversial. This study was to quantitatively demonstrate its effect. In all, 124 patients having ICS in surgical correction of spinal deformity were included. These patients would be divided into 3 groups. Group 1-blood loss less than 15 mL/kg; group 2-between 15 and 37.5 mL/kg; and group 3-mo...