Heath-related quality of life and functional outcomes in patients with congenital or juvenile idiopathic scoliosis after an average follow-up of 25 years: a cohort study.

Background Context: Congenital and juvenile scoliosis are both early-onset deformities that develop before the age of 10. Children are treated to prevent curve progression and problems in adulthood such as back pain and a decreased quality of life but literature on long-term outcomes remains scarce.

Purpose: To evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and potential disability of children with congenital scoliosis (CS) or juvenile idiopathic scoliosis (JIS) after a minimum of 20 years follow-up.

Application of a lumbar brace for thoracic and double thoracic lumbar scoliosis: a comparative study.

A pilot study was performed to determine if thoracic and double thoracic lumbar scolioses can successfully be treated by applying a lumbar brace. In some of the patients application of a thoracic brace yielded insufficient correction of the lumbar curve. As the response of a curve to application of a brace is said to be the best guideline for prediction of the results of brace treatment, it was thought important to focus more attention on the behaviour of the lumbar curve.

No relationship exists between the correction of the thoracic and the lumbar curves after selective thoracic fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis King type II.

In this study we focus on idiopathic scoliosis with a primary thoracic curve and a secondary lumbar curve. We were interested in how the lumbar curve corrects following selective thoracic fusion and whether one can explain or predict the behaviour of the lumbar curve. In the literature it is said that, if the lower level of fusion is properly selected, the lumbar curve spontaneously corrects to balance the thoracic curve after selective thoracic fusion.

Changes in curve pattern after brace treatment for idiopathic scoliosis.

We studied whether thoracic Boston brace treatment changes the King type of scoliotic curves in a group of 50 patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Bending radiographs showed more flexibility of the lumbar curves than that of the thoracic curves. However, after initial application of the brace, the mean lumbar correction in degrees was less than the mean thoracic correction.

Curve characteristics in monozygotic twins with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: 3 new twin pairs and a review of the literature.

Most authors state that there is strong evidence for a genetic origin of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). This conclusion is mainly based on the fact that the rate of concordance for AIS in monozygotic twins is significantly higher than that in dizygotic twins. However, it is of interest to determine whether all elements of scoliosis formation are genetically predetermined.

Changing curve pattern in infantile idiopathic scoliosis: family report with a follow-up of 15 years.

Study Design: The authors monitored a father and his six children, all of whom had idiopathic scoliosis for more than 13 years.

Objective: To analyze the similarities and differences in curve pattern between the family members.

Summary Of Background Data: The etiology and pathogenesis of idiopathic scoliosis are not well understood.

Aneurysmal bone cyst of the spine: 31 cases and the importance of the surgical approach.

Thirty-one cases of aneurysmal bone cyst of the spine with a minimum follow-up of 1 year as registered by the Netherlands Committee for Bone Tumors are reported. Aneurysmal bone cyst is a benign, sometimes expansive and destructive, lesion frequently occurring between the ages of 10 and 20 years. Located in the vertebral column, it undermines the structural integrity of the spine, and neurologic complications can occur.

[One hundred years of orthopedics in the Netherlands. IV. Spinal abnormalities].

In recent years there has been spectacular progress in the approach to various disorders of the spinal column. Owing to improved methods of osteosynthesis there is no longer so much need for long periods of postoperative bed rest. Of all the scolioses, idiopathic scoliosis is most common.

[Metal detectors for security checks mostly insensitive for metal implants].

Objective: To determine whether metal implants may cause problems at security checks (e.g. at airports).

Idiopathic scoliosis: prognostic value of the profile.

A study was undertaken to establish the significance of the sagittal shape of the spine in 138 consecutively treated girls with early idiopathic thoracic scoliosis. All were treated in a Boston brace. Two groups were formed: group I consisted of 120 girls whose scoliosis remained stable in the brace, group II of 18 girls who required a spinal fusion for progressive curves despite the brace.

[Backache in children and adolescents].

Although backpain during childhood is uncommon serious diseases feature high on the list of differential diseases. Often the correct diagnosis in the young is made late or missed in the first instance. During the adolescent period the incidence of backpain rises to include mechanical or osteochondritic conditions and the early problems of a degenerative back such as disc protrusion.

Bone scintigraphy in patients with juvenile kyphosis (M. Scheuermann).

A group of 32 patients between 10 and 16 years of age with a positive history and physical examination of juvenile kyphosis were studied. Both radiological and nuclear bone scanning studies of the spinal column were performed. Despite gross radiological abnormalities of the spinal column due to M.

Pulmonary bone embolism after total hip replacement.

Numerous intravascular bony spicules were found at necropsy in both lungs of an 84-year-old patient who had undergone total hip replacements three and 10 months before death. It is suggested that acetabular grindings enter the damaged venous system at operation and are filtered out by the lungs.