Adolescent Compressive Epiphysitis of the Spine: A Diagnosis for Adolescent Back Pain.

Adolescent back pain is a difficult problem to diagnose owing to the variability in diagnoses that can stem from this symptom. It may be due to simple myalgias or something as complex as a neoplastic or infectious process, and the consequences of missing the latter are detrimental. The authors theorize that the increased forces seen in the lower back owing to posture in conjunction with the increase in smartphone usage over the last decade and heavy backpack use have led to an increased prevalence of a phenomenon of adolescent compressive epiphysitis of the spine (ACES).

Incidence of Urinary Retention Following Posterior Spinal Fusion for Adolescent and Pediatric Scoliosis at a Single Academic Center: Is There a Role for Prophylactic Tamsulosin?

The purpose of this study is to better characterize patient- and surgery-specific parameters associated with postoperative urinary retention (POUR) and assess the impact of prophylactic Tamsulosin following posterior spinal fusion (PSF) for the management of scoliosis in pediatric and adolescent patients. All patients who underwent PSF for surgical correction of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and neuromuscular scoliosis (NMS) between 2015 and 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were stratified based on whether they received prophylactic Tamsulosin.