STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE To examine whether bone marrow edema is associated with low back pain in elderly patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The cause of low back pain in degenerative lumbar scoliosis is unclear. METHODS A total of 120 degenerative lumbar scoliosis patients 65 years of age or older were evaluated. Radiography, comp...

Degenerative Scoliosis is well known for producing both neurological and mechanical symptoms in addition to deformity sometimes instability. Decompression alone has been treatment of choice patients with mild neurogenic claudication or radiculopathy but without However, fusion preferred counter deformity, instability forces. We intended study these variables when treated decompression alone. ev...

Background Management of pain in adult scoliosis represents a significant clinical challenge. Both adolescent scoliosis in the adult (ASA) and degenerative de-novo scoliosis (DDS) can cause significant pain. Over recent years, the SpineCor brace has been used by practitioners in the treatment of painful adult scoliosis. To date, SpineCor has been used clinically in adult treatment in hundreds o...

Study Design. A retrospective study. Purpose. Posterolateral fusion with pedicle screw instrumentation used for degenerative lumbar scoliosis can lead to several complications. In elderly patients without sagittal imbalance, dynamic stabilization could represent an option to avoid these adverse events. Methods. 57 patients treated by dynamic stabilization without fusion were included. All patie...

BACKGROUND Lenke 5C type adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) with a Cobb angle of over 30 degrees has high risk of progression. The need for corrective surgeries for degenerative lumbar scoliosis has been increasing these days and some of those cases are pre-existing type scoliosis. However, it is said to be difficult to differentiate pre-existing type scoliosis from de novo type scoliosis. T...

We have investigated the effect of multisegmental spinal fusion on the long-term functional and radiological outcome in patients with scoliosis. We compared these patients both with those whose spine had not been fused, and with a control group. We studied 68 patients with idiopathic scoliosis (34 operative and 34 non-operative) who had been followed up for a minimum of five years after treatme...

MATERIALS AND METHODS. The study of the preliminary results and retrospective chart review of collected clinical and radiographic outcomes in 12 patients who underwent Direct Lateral Interbody Fusion L1-L5 as a treatment for degenerative disc disease, degenerative scoliosis and/or degenerative spondylolisthesis. Clinical outcomes measured include Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and Radiographic outcome.

We report the case of a 73-year-old female with severe degenerative scoliosis and back and leg pain that wassuccessfully treated with stand- alone cages via an extreme lateral transpsoas approach. This patient had declinedopen surgery and instrumentation due to her advanced age concerns about potential side effects.

Objective The lumbar lesion in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been paid less attention, but some previous studies demonstrated the high prevalence of lumbar spondylolisthesis and lumbar scoliosis. The lumbar lesion accompanied with RA is often difficult to treat, and it is important to know the characteristics of lumbar lesion in RA patients. The purpose of this study is to clarify the features...