… severe clinical and radiographic deformity with poor pulmonary … scoliosis which is a primary
spinal deformity, patients with severe spine deformity have the added chest wall deformity …

… The development of osteotomy techniques has advanced our ability to treat spinal deformities.
The shift away from simple compression/distraction or cantilever maneuvers as a means …

… A subtle abnormality is asymmetry of the superficial abdominal reflexes, and thus … spine
deformities. There is a high frequency of spinal dysraphism in patients with congenital scoliosis. …

… thoracic compensation in patients with adult spinal deformity; (2) to investigate which patients
respond to deformity correction with reciprocal thoracic kyphosis … if thoracic compensation …

… In order to preserve the natural kyphosis already present in the proximal thoracic spine,
we often build kyphosis into the proximal end of the rods before placement and only use …

… Proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) in adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery patients is a
severe complication with potential need for revision surgery. While thoracic kyphosis (TK) is …

… of the spine so that thoracic kyphosis, for example, changes depending on levels of the
spine … understanding of the pediatric spine, average values for the entire thoracic spine and …

… surgeons interested in spinal deformities depends upon an … in the coronal plane (scoliosis)
seems well understood and … of a curve in the sagittal plane, especially thoracic kyphosis. …

… of a late post-traumatic thoracolumbar kyphotic deformity. A posterior only fusion in the
presence of an existing kyphotic deformity places considerable tension on the instrumentation …

… kyphosis at 7.8 years postoperation in adult spinal deformity after long (≥5 vertebrae) segmental
posterior spinal … with minimal effect on Scoliosis Research Society outcome instruments …