STUDY DESIGN  Case report. OBJECTIVE  To describe a case of thoracic pedicle subtraction osteotomy (PSO) for congenital kyphosis in a child. BACKGROUND INFORMATION  Although congenital kyphosis is rare, it is a challenging cause of pediatric myelopathy and frank paralysis. Even less common is the use of PSO for the surgical management of focal congenital kyphosis. We present the case of a c...

STUDY DESIGN: A description of pedicle subtraction osteotomy for correction of kyphotic deformity of the cervical-thoracic spine and a prospective evaluation of the surgical outcomes. OBJECTIVES: To describe the surgical technique and the postoperative results of pedicle subtraction osteotomy in the upper thoracic spine and the cervical-thoracic junction. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Pedicle sub...

The purpose of this study was to measure and describe postural aberrations in chronic and acute low back pain in search of predictors of low back pain. The sample included 59 subjects recruited to the following three groups: chronic, acute, or no low back pain. Diagnoses included disc disease, mechanical back pain, and osteoarthritis. Lumbar lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, head position, shoulder ...

Congenital cervico-thoracic kyphosis has been encountered in a girl with Pierre Robin sequence. The constellation of the spine malformation complex such as incomplete development of the vertebral bodies associated with defective ossification of the cervico-thoracic pedicles causing effectively the development of complete spinal cord injury at the kyphotic level of C7/T1 were present. Congenital...

BACKGROUND Obtaining accurate measurements of scoliosis from two-dimensional (2-D) radiographs can be challenging because of the three-dimensional (3-D) nature of the deformity. Previous studies have shown that the sagittal plane, in particular, is misrepresented on 2-D radiographs because of the influence of axial plane rotation. The purpose of the current study was to define a methodology for...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of aging on the degree of thoracic kyphosis and peak torque of the trunk flexor and extensor muscles among women without a densitometric diagnosis of osteoporosis. METHODS Thirty women were selected to make up three groups: young women (n = 10; 24.60 ± 2.27 years of age); adults (n = 10; 43.50 ± 2.88); and elderly women (n = 10; 62.40...

BACKGROUND: Idiopathic scoliosis is accompanied by postural alterations, instability of gait, and functional disabilities. The objective was to verify radiographic parameters (coronal sagittal) adolescents with idiopathic (AIS) pre- post-surgery direct vertebral rotation (DVR), associated type 1 osteotomies in all segments (except the most proximal) 2 periapical vertebrae curves. METHODS: A pro...

Study Design This is a retrospective study. Objective The objective of this study was to assess the sagittal stable vertebra (SSV) versus the first lordotic vertebra (FLV) as the inferior fusion level in patients undergoing spinal surgery for thoracic hyperkyphosis. The main outcome of interest was the development of distal junctional kyphosis (DJK). Summary of Background Data Prior research ha...