Introduction High prevalence of obstructive lung disease has been reported in patients undergoing surgical correction of thoracic scoliosis. Airway narrowing due to spine morphology is analysed as a contributing factor. Methods Preoperative surgical planning CTs of 34 patients with right-sided thoracic scoliosis (age: 17.6±9.0) were retrospectively analysed and compared with 15 non-scoliotic ...

Purpose Previous studies have suggested an association between increased thoracic kyphosis and neural axis abnormalities in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). However, the basis for this finding is unclear, and this association has been mainly noted in retrospective studies on a non-consecutive series of patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship betwee...

 Abstract Objective: To present the changes in projected thoracic hypokyphosis and the behavior of lumbar lordosis within and below the fusion and to compare these changes between the Harrington rod (HR) and posterior multisegmented hook instrumentation. Methods: 178 patients with idiopathic scoliosis, who had undergone posterior spinal fusion with Harrington technique (106 patients) or multise...

The objective of this study was to discuss the variables influencing alignment mechanisms of the spine, with particular consideration of post-surgical alignment in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. The analysis is based on information currently available in the literature, and on the authors' own experience, which includes surgical material from over 2200 cases of idiopathic scoliosis. Over...

OBJECTIVE To study young patients after scoliosis surgery in order to determine risk and prevention factors for developing a crankshaft phenomenon (CP). MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective study of a cohort of 26 skeletally immature patients. Six were excluded due to progression of various conditions. Crankshaft was defined as an increase in the Cobb angle >10°, or an increase in the Mehta ang...