Prevalence of the thoracic scoliosis in children and adolescents candidates for strabismus surgery: results from a 1935-patient cross-sectional study in China.

Purpose: No study so far has paid attention to strabismus-related spinal imbalance. This study aimed to determine the epidemiology of thoracic scoliosis in children and adolescents with strabismus and investigate the association of two diseases.

Methods And Design: A cross-sectional study.

Risk Factor of Failed Reduction of Posterior Ligamentatoxis Reduction Instrumentation in Managing Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures: A Retrospective Study.

Objective: To determine whether radiographic findings associated with thoracolumbar burst fractures could be predictors of failure of short-segment posterior instrumentation with insertion screw at the fracture level (SSPI-f).

Methods: Seventy-five patients with thoracolumbar burst fracture surgically treated by SSPI-f were enrolled in the study and divided into 2 groups: a reduction group (n = 46) and a failed-reduction group (n = 29). Radiographic data including local kyphosis, Cobb angle, anterior vertebral height, posterior vertebral height (PVH), anterior/posterior vertebral height ratio, interpedicle distance (IPD), bony compress area, bony fracture area, and compress-fracture area of the fractured vertebra and clinical data including age and neurologic function were also analyzed.

Normal radiological anatomy of thyroid cartilage in 600 Chinese individuals: implications for anterior cervical spine surgery.

Background: Thyroid cartilage is an important barrier in anterior cervical approach surgery. The objective of this study is to establish normative values for thyroid cartilage at three planes and to determine their significance on preoperative positioning and intraoperative traction in surgery via the anterior cervical approach.

Methods: Neck CT scans were collected from 600 healthy adults who did not meet any of the exclusion criteria.