Christoph Kaether, Johanna Scheuermann, Matthias Fassler, Sonja Zilow, Keiro Shirotani, Christina Valkova, Bozidar Novak, Slavomir Kacmar, Harald Steiner & Christian Haass 1Laboratory for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Research, Department of Biochemistry, Center For Integrated Protein Science Munich and Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany, and 2Leib...

Norman Wagner(1), Alexander Scheuermann(2,3), Moritz Schwing(2), Frank Bonitz(1), Klaus Kupfer(1) (1) Institute of Material Research and Testing at the Bauhaus-University Weimar Coudraystr. 4, 99423 Weimar, Germany, Email: [email protected] (2) The Golder Geomechanics Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (3) Institute for Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics, University of Kar...

OBJECTIVE Surgical treatment of Scheuermann's kyphosis (SK) remains a subject under discussion. In view of the controversy over the best form of surgical tr otomy. METHODS This was a descriptive case-control study with cross-sectional analysis. Twenty-eight patients, split into two groups conducted at different times, were evaluated. RESULTS The first group comprised patients treated using ...

Cervical anterior fusion is useful for the treatment of patients with cervical disease, but carries the risk of postoperative worsening of the cervical spine alignment and kyphosis. Preoperative prediction of the risk for kyphosis could help to avoid such postoperative complications. We attempted to predict the postoperative development of kyphosis in 59 patients scheduled for cervical anterior...

Objective. To identify the mechanism of deformity compensation in patients with post-traumatic kyphosis thoracolumbar junction, based on analysis X-ray results surgical treatment. Material and Methods. The study included data obtained from medical records 69 (47 women, 22 men) operated for painful at levels T12, L1 L2 vertebra. Patients underwent staged interventions a single session. Demograph...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of the surgical treatment of the spinal Kyphosis using the Ponte's technique (multiple posterior osteotomies). METHODS Ten patients (8 with Scheuermann's kyphosis and 2 with kyphosis after laminectomy) submitted to surgical correction of kyphotic deformity greater than 70° were retrospectively assessed. The age at the surgical time ranged from 12 to 20 years ...