Bowel Injury and Insidious Pneumoperitoneum after Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion by Eui Seung Hwang, Kook Jong Kim, Choon Sung Lee, Mi Young Lee, So Jung Yoon, Jae Woo Park, Jae Hwan Cho, Dong-Ho Lee

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Limbus vertebrae of the cervical spine: A case report by Eleni Pappa, Ioannis Chatzikomninos

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The pathophysiology of the intervertebral disc. by Bibby, SR, Jones, D, Lee, R, Yu, J, Urban JPG

“…Mechanical stimuli modify disk cell activity. Scoliosis is associated with decreased endplate permeability, a factor that may play a role in disk degeneration and scoliosis progression.…”

Emerging role of lncRNAs in osteoarthritis: An updated review by Rongliang Wang, Rongliang Wang, Rongliang Wang, Hoi Ting Shiu, Hoi Ting Shiu, Wayne Yuk Wai Lee, Wayne Yuk Wai Lee, Wayne Yuk Wai Lee

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The Relationship between the Angle of Curvature of the Spine and SEMG Amplitude of the Erector Spinae in Young School-Children by Jacek Wilczyński, Przemysław Karolak, Sylwia Janecka, Magdalena Kabała, Natalia Habik-Tatarowska

“…The most important and statistically significant predictor of the SEMG amplitude and scoliosis angle in the scoliosis group was the standing position, chest segment, right side. …”
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Relationship between handedness and the incidence of spinal changes in the frontal plane: evaluation using Idiag® Spinal Mouse® by C. Castro, J. Neves Silva, E. Matos, S. Xavier Sousa, D. Gonçalves, N. Azevedo, L. Rodrigues, G. Pacheco

“…However, 86% of the students presented thoracolumbar scoliosis in "C" with convexity to the left side and 10% presented thoracolumbar scoliosis in “S”, that is, with two curves present. …”
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Hip-sacroiliac joint-spine syndrome in total hip arthroplasty patients by Ayumi Kaneuji, Makoto Fukui, Eiji Takahashi, Yusuke Sanji, Hiroaki Hirata, Norio Kawahara

“…Patients with lumbar spondylolisthesis or degenerative scoliosis were significantly more likely to have SIJ irregularities. …”
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Clinical and radiological results of kyphectomy and sliding growing rod surgery technique performed in children with myelomeningocele by Çağrı Özcan, Ömer Polat, İbrahim Alataş, Savaş Çamur, Necdet Sağlam, Bekir Yavuz Uçar

“…In nine patients presenting with scoliosis, scoliosis was evaluated as 60.2° (115–35°) preoperative, as 12.9° (32–0°) early postoperative, and 15.7° (34–0°) in the final measurement. …”
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The pathophysiology of the intervertebral disk by Bibby, S, Jones, D, Lee, R, Yu, J, Urban, J

“…Mechanical stimuli modify disk cell activity. Scoliosis is associated with decreased endplate permeability, a factor that may play a role in disk degeneration and scoliosis progression. © 2001 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS.…”

Undifferentiated connective tissue dysplasia in adolescents by G. Yu. Kalayeva, O. I. Khokhlova

“…The latter was accompanied by joint pain in 89 (33,3%) adolescents in the study group or concurrent with scoliosis in 77,8% and platypodia in 22,2%. In a control group (я=29), scoliosis and platypodia were 2 and 3,3 times rarer, respectively; complaints of arthralgia were absent. …”
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Abordagem ortopédica das deformidades pectus: 32 anos de estudos Orthopaedic approach to pectus deformities: 32 years of studies by Sydney Abrão Haje, Davi de Podestá Haje

“…Good results were seen in 60.6% of children and adolescents and in 27% of adults treated. No scoliosis patient presented curve worsening, and a case of 52º presented an improvement of 20º in the scoliosis with the treatment. …”
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Spinal Manifestations of Neurofibromatosis: An Update by Kaveh Haddadi, Saeed Kargar Soleiman Abad, Seiied Mohammad Hashemie Amir, Mehdi Pooladi

“…Bone deformities, osteoporosis, osteopenia, reduction of bone mass density, and spinal osteopathy such as scoliosis among such defects. Although the relative prevalence of spinal defects in neurofibromatosis type 1 is not clear, scoliosis can be considered the most common type of spinal deformity in this illness to the point it is present in 10 to 71% of cases. …”
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The internal pressure and stress environment of the scoliotic intervertebral disc--a review. by Meir, A, McNally, D, Fairbank, J, Jones, D, Urban, J

“…The aetiology, in terms of both initiation and progression, of the deformity in idiopathic scoliosis is at present unclear. Even in neuromuscular cases, the mechanisms underlying progression are not fully elucidated. …”

Surface stereophotogrammetry of thoracic kyphosis. by Carr, A, Jefferson, R, Turner-Smith, A, Weisz, I, Thomas, D, Stavrakis, T, Houghton, G

“…The thoracic kyphosis angles of 16 normal individuals, 10 patients with Scheuermann's disease and 11 with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis were measured both radiographically and from Integrated Shape Imaging System (ISIS) scans obtained by surface stereophotogrammetry. …”

Right thoracic curvature in the normal spine by Masuda Keigo, Matsumoto Yoshihiro, Mitsuyasu Hiromichi, Harimaya Katsumi, Doi Toshio, Kobayakawa Kazu, Iwamoto Yukihide

“…As side curvature is minimal in normal spines and the range at which curvature is measured is difficult to ascertain, first the typical curvature range in scoliosis patients was determined and then the Cobb angle in normal spines was measured using the same range as the scoliosis curve, from T5 to T12. …”
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Orthopedic Coordinated Registry Network (Ortho-CRN): advanced infrastructure for real-world evidence generation by Art Sedrakyan, Danica Marinac-Dabic, Ronald Navarro, Said Ibrahim, Patricia Franklin, Robbert Zusterzeel, Laura Elisabeth Gressler, Vincent Devlin, Mary Jung, Elizabeth W Paxton, Jonathan Forsberg, Paul E Voorhorst, Michael Vitale, Michelle C Marks, Peter O Newton, Raquel Peat

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Effects of the ,,School on the move'' program on postural status of younger school age students by Tijana Stojanović, Dragan Perić, Darko Stojanović, Toplica Stojanović

“…The results showed that during the 16-week period, there was a significant improvement in the reduction of thoracic scoliosis (p=0.003) and kyphosis (p=0.006), while there were no significant changes in the lumbar scoliosis and lordosis. …”
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Posterior Spinal Fusion in a Scoliotic Patient With Congenital Heart Block Treated With Pacemaker: An Intraoperative Technical Difficulty by Wong, Tat Seng, Abu Bakar, Jaseemuddeen, Chee, Kok Han, Hasan, Mohd Shahnaz, Chung, Weng Hong, Chiu, Chee Kidd, Chan, Chris Yin Wei, Kwan, Mun Keong

“…OBJECTIVE: To describe the technical difficulties on performing posterior spinal fusion (PSF) on a pacemaker-dependent patient with complete congenital heart block and right thoracic scoliosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Congenital complete heart block requires pacemaker implantation at birth through thoracotomy, which can result in scoliosis. …”

Analysis of the Spinopelvic Parameters in Patients with Fragility Fractures of the Pelvis by Moritz F. Lodde, Thies M. Fischer, Oliver Riesenbeck, Steffen Roßlenbroich, J. Christoph Katthagen, Daria Rometsch, Dennis Günes, Marc Schneider, Michael J. Raschke, Ulf Liljenqvist

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COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AS A COMPONENT OF PREOPERATIVE PLANNING FOR METAL TRANSITIONAL SPINE FIXATION IN THE CORRECTION OF SCOLIOTIC DEFORMITIES BY HYBRID CONSTRUCTS by I. A. Norkin, S. V. Likhachev, V. V. Zaretskov, V. B. Arsenievich, A. E. Shul’ga, S. V. Stepukhovich, A. V. Zaretskov, D. Yu. Sumin, K. T. Bitokova

“…The protocol was clarified for preoperative scoliosis examination using CT data on cervicothoracic and  thoracolumbar vertebrae. …”
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