Spinal growth and progression of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
| Autor: | Mauno Ylikoski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent Radiography Idiopathic scoliosis Thoracic Vertebrae Medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Child Lumbar Vertebrae business.industry Disease progression Age Factors Mean age Spine Surgery Scoliosis Disease Progression Lumbar scoliosis Female Neurosurgery business Nuclear medicine Thoracic scoliosis |
| Zdroj: | European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society. 1(4) |
| ISSN: | 0940-6719 |
| Popis: | The spinal growth in scoliotic segments (T4-L4) of 110 girls with untreated idiopathic scoliosis was measured from two successive radiographs taken at a mean interval of 1.1 years. At the first visit the mean age of the patients was 14 years (range 11-16 years), the mean magnitude of the major curves 24 degrees (range 9 degrees-38 degrees) and that of the minor curves 14 degrees (range 2 degrees-38 degrees). Spinal growth was most rapid at the age of 11-12 years. The progression of the curves (major plus minor) correlated with the spinal growth (r = 0.384). The greater the initial curves were, the stronger the correlation was between the spinal growth and the progression of the curves (r = 0.046-0.639), and the correlation was more significant in thoracic scoliosis (r = 0.560) than in thoracolumbar and lumbar scoliosis (r = 0.152). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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