Scoliosis

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Comparison of Three Different Positioning Techniques on Surgical Corrections and Postoperative Alignment in Cervical Spinal Deformity (CD) Surgery. 
  • A New Piece of the Puzzle to Understand Cervical Sagittal Alignment: Utilizing a Novel Angle δ to Describe the Relationship among T1 Vertebral Body Slope, Cervical Lordosis, and Cervical Sagittal Alignment. 
  • A bony Chance fracture through L1 following posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a case report. 
  • A comparative analysis of the prevalence and characteristics of cervical malalignment in adults presenting with thoracolumbar spine deformity based on variations in treatment approach over 2 years. 
  • A comparison of the reliability and vulnerability of 3D sterEOS and 2D EOS when measuring the sagittal spinal alignment of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • A comparison of three methods of pain control for posterior spinal fusions in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • A mechanism for gene-environment interaction in the etiology of congenital scoliosis. 
  • Adding thoracic fusion levels in Lenke 5 curves: risks and benefits. 
  • Adult Scoliosis Deformity Surgery: Comparison of Outcomes Between One Versus Two Attending Surgeons. 
  • Adult degenerative scoliosis: a review. 
  • Age-gender matched comparison of SRS instrument scores between adult deformity and normal adults: are all SRS domains disease specific? 
  • Aging spine: challenges and emerging techniques. 
  • An Analysis of the Incidence and Outcomes of Major Versus Minor Neurological Decline After Complex Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Subanalysis of Scoli-RISK-1 Study. 
  • An assessment of the reliability of the Scoliometer. 
  • Analysis of the impact of race on blood transfusion in pediatric scoliosis surgery. 
  • Anterior scoliosis rod migration to the lower extremity. 
  • Are surgeons' preferences for instrumentation related to patient outcomes? A randomized clinical trial of two implants for idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Artificial Intelligence Models Predict Operative Versus Nonoperative Management of Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity with 86% Accuracy. 
  • Assessment of Patient Outcomes and Proximal Junctional Failure Rate of Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity Undergoing Caudal Extension of Previous Spinal Fusion. 
  • Assessment of potential confounders when imaging pectus excavatum with chest radiography alone. 
  • Association between preoperative cervical sagittal deformity and inferior outcomes at 2-year follow-up in patients with adult thoracolumbar deformity: analysis of 182 patients. 
  • Baseline Patient-Reported Outcomes Correlate Weakly With Radiographic Parameters: A Multicenter, Prospective NIH Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis Study of 286 Patients. 
  • Beware of open triradiate cartilage: 1 in 4 patients will lose > 10° of correction following posterior only fusion. 
  • Body mass index affects outcomes after vertebral body tethering surgery. 
  • Brief clinical report and review: the Marden-Walker syndrome. 
  • Caesarean section in a patient with torsion dystonia. 
  • Cervical compensatory alignment changes following correction of adult thoracic deformity: a multicenter experience in 57 patients with a 2-year follow-up. 
  • Cervical mismatch: the normative value of T1 slope minus cervical lordosis and its ability to predict ideal cervical lordosis. 
  • Change in classification grade by the SRS-Schwab Adult Spinal Deformity Classification predicts impact on health-related quality of life measures: prospective analysis of operative and nonoperative treatment. 
  • Changes in radiographic and clinical outcomes with primary treatment adult spinal deformity surgeries from two years to three- to five-years follow-up. 
  • Chiari I malformation in the very young child: the spectrum of presentations and experience in 31 children under age 6 years. 
  • Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 2: complications and the influence of comorbid disease in California, Florida, and New York. 
  • Chiari malformation clusters describe differing presence of concurrent anomalies based on Chiari type. 
  • Classification systems for adolescent and adult scoliosis. 
  • Classifications for adult spinal deformity and use of the Scoliosis Research Society-Schwab Adult Spinal Deformity Classification. 
  • Clinical and radiographic evaluation of the adult spinal deformity patient. 
  • Clinical and radiographic parameters that distinguish between the best and worst outcomes of scoliosis surgery for adults. 
  • Clinical outcomes of extreme lateral interbody fusion in the treatment of adult degenerative scoliosis. 
  • Co-morbidities Associated With Early Mortality in Adults With Spina Bifida. 
  • Commentary: Appropriate Use Criteria for Lumbar Degenerative Scoliosis: Developing Evidence-based Guidance for Complex Treatment Decisions. 
  • Comparable satisfaction and clinical outcomes after surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in the adult (AISA) between the US and Japan. 
  • Comparing and Contrasting the Clinical Utility of Sagittal Spine Alignment Classification Frameworks: Roussouly Versus SRS-Schwab. 
  • Comparison of Complications and Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes Between Nonobese and Obese Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity Undergoing Minimally Invasive Surgery. 
  • Comparison of Cotrel-Dubousset and Harrington rod instrumentations in idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Comparison of best versus worst clinical outcomes for adult spinal deformity surgery: a retrospective review of a prospectively collected, multicenter database with 2-year follow-up. 
  • Comparison of radiographic results after minimally invasive, hybrid, and open surgery for adult spinal deformity: a multicenter study of 184 patients. 
  • Comparison of two minimally invasive surgery strategies to treat adult spinal deformity. 
  • Complication rates associated with open versus percutaneous pedicle screw instrumentation among patients undergoing minimally invasive interbody fusion for adult spinal deformity. 
  • Complication rates of three common spine procedures and rates of thromboembolism following spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report from the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee. 
  • Complications associated with surgical treatment of traumatic spinal fractures: a review of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality database. 
  • Complications in spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in the new millennium. A report of the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee. 
  • Complications in the surgical treatment of 19,360 cases of pediatric scoliosis: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality database. 
  • Congenital Scoliosis of the Pediatric Cervical Spine: Characterization of a 17-Patient Operative Cohort. 
  • Congenital scoliosis and urinary tract abnormalities: are intravenous pyelograms necessary? 
  • Coronal Correction Using Kickstand Rods for Adult Thoracolumbar/Lumbar Scoliosis: Case Series With Analysis of Early Outcomes and Complications. 
  • Coronal plane spinal malalignment and Parkinson's disease: prevalence and associations with disease severity. 
  • Correlation of 2-year SRS-22r and ODI patient-reported outcomes with 5-year patient-reported outcomes after complex spinal fusion: a 5-year single-institution study of 118 patients. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of Operative versus Nonoperative Treatment of Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis an Intent-to-treat Analysis at 5-year Follow-up. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of adult lumbar scoliosis surgery: an as-treated analysis from the adult symptomatic scoliosis surgery trial with 5-year follow-up. 
  • Counseling Guidelines for Anticipated Postsurgical Improvements in Pain, Function, Mental Health, and Self-image for Different Types of Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Defining rates and causes of mortality associated with spine surgery: comparison of 2 data collection approaches through the Scoliosis Research Society. 
  • Deflazacort in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a comparison of two different protocols. 
  • Deformity Correction Through the Use of Reduction Towers: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. 
  • Degenerative Spinal Deformity. 
  • Degenerative adult onset scoliosis. 
  • Degenerative lumbar scoliosis. 
  • Depression Symptoms Are Associated with Poor Functional Status Among Operative Spinal Deformity Patients. 
  • Determinants of Patient Satisfaction 2 Years After Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Latent Class Analysis. 
  • Development of Deployable Predictive Models for Minimal Clinically Important Difference Achievement Across the Commonly Used Health-related Quality of Life Instruments in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Development of a straight vertebrate body axis. 
  • Development of predictive models for all individual questions of SRS-22R after adult spinal deformity surgery: a step toward individualized medicine. 
  • Diagnostic findings in painful adult scoliosis. 
  • Distant Harrington rod migration 35 years after implantation. 
  • Do 1-year outcomes predict 2-year outcomes for adult deformity surgery? 
  • Does Minimally Invasive Percutaneous Posterior Instrumentation Reduce Risk of Proximal Junctional Kyphosis in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery? A Propensity-Matched Cohort Analysis. 
  • Does prior short-segment surgery for adult scoliosis impact perioperative complication rates and clinical outcome among patients undergoing scoliosis correction? 
  • Does recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 use in adult spinal deformity increase complications and are complications associated with location of rhBMP-2 use? A prospective, multicenter study of 279 consecutive patients. 
  • Does spinal fusion influence quality of life in neuromuscular scoliosis? 
  • Does the presence of programmable implanted devices in patients with early onset scoliosis alter typical operative and postoperative practices? A survey of spine surgeons. 
  • Does treatment (nonoperative and operative) improve the two-year quality of life in patients with adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis: a prospective multicenter evidence-based medicine study. 
  • Does vertebral level of pedicle subtraction osteotomy correlate with degree of spinopelvic parameter correction? 
  • Drivers of Cervical Deformity Have a Strong Influence on Achieving Optimal Radiographic and Clinical Outcomes at 1 Year After Cervical Deformity Surgery. 
  • Dynamic stabilization. 
  • Editorial: minimally invasive spinal deformity surgery. 
  • Effect of Serious Adverse Events on Health-related Quality of Life Measures Following Surgery for Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis. 
  • Evaluation of complications and neurological deficits with three-column spine reconstructions for complex spinal deformity: a retrospective Scoli-RISK-1 study. 
  • Examination of Adult Spinal Deformity Patients Undergoing Surgery with Implanted Spinal Cord Stimulators and Intrathecal Pumps. 
  • Extreme lateral interbody fusion for the treatment of adult degenerative scoliosis. 
  • Failure of lumbopelvic fixation after long construct fusions in patients with adult spinal deformity: clinical and radiographic risk factors: clinical article. 
  • Functional Limitations Due to Lumbar Stiffness in Adults With and Without Spinal Deformity. 
  • Global coronal decompensation and adult spinal deformity surgery: comparison of upper-thoracic versus lower-thoracic proximal fixation for long fusions. 
  • Glucocorticoid treatment for the prevention of scoliosis in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: long-term follow-up. 
  • Group-based Trajectory Modeling: A Novel Approach to Classifying Discriminative Functional Status Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Study of a 3-year Follow-up Group. 
  • Growth-friendly Spinal Instrumentation in Marfan Syndrome Achieves Sustained Gains in Thoracic Height Amidst High Rates of Implant Failure. 
  • Growth-preserving instrumentation in early-onset scoliosis patients with multi-level congenital anomalies. 
  • Health-Related Quality of Life Scores Underestimate the Impact of Major Complications in Lumbar Degenerative Scoliosis Surgery. 
  • Hospital Readmission Within 2 Years Following Adult Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Surgery: Prevalence, Predictors, and Effect on Patient-derived Outcome Measures. 
  • Identification of decision criteria for revision surgery among patients with proximal junctional failure after surgical treatment of spinal deformity. 
  • Idiopathic scoliosis in families of children with congenital scoliosis. 
  • Iliac apophyses. Prognostic value in idiopathic schliosis. 
  • Impact of Increasing Age on Outcomes of Spinal Fusion in Adult Idiopathic Scoliosis. 
  • Impact of Movement Disorders on Management of Spinal Deformity in the Elderly. 
  • Impact of age on the likelihood of reaching a minimum clinically important difference in 374 three-column spinal osteotomies: clinical article. 
  • Impact of growth friendly interventions on spine and pulmonary outcomes of patients with spinal muscular atrophy. 
  • Impact of magnitude and percentage of global sagittal plane correction on health-related quality of life at 2-years follow-up. 
  • Implications of Tumor Characteristics and Treatment Modality on Local Recurrence and Functional Outcomes in Children With Chest Wall Sarcoma: A Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative Study. 
  • Improvement in SRS-22R Self-Image Correlate Most with Patient Satisfaction after 3-Column Osteotomy. 
  • Improvement in quality of life following surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Improvement of back pain with operative and nonoperative treatment in adults with scoliosis. 
  • In Reply: Incidence and Predictive Factors of Sepsis Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Incidence, mode, and location of acute proximal junctional failures after surgical treatment of adult spinal deformity. 
  • Increased proximal vertebral rotation is associated with shoulder imbalance after posterior spinal fusion for severe adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Increasing Cost Efficiency in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Identifying Predictors of Lower Total Costs. 
  • Independent Association Between Preoperative Cognitive Status and Discharge Location After Surgery: A Strategy to Reduce Resource Use After Surgery for Deformity. 
  • Inflammatory and dysplastic lesions involving the spine. 
  • Inpatient complications, mortality, and discharge disposition after surgical correction of idiopathic scoliosis: a national perspective. 
  • Interdisciplinary Care Model Independently Decreases Use of Critical Care Services After Corrective Surgery for Adult Degenerative Scoliosis. 
  • Interpedicular height as a predictor of radicular pain in adult degenerative scoliosis. 
  • Introduction: Adult spinal deformity: pathophysiology and corrective measures. 
  • Kickstand Rod Technique for Correcting Coronal Imbalance in Adult Scoliosis: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. 
  • Kickstand rods and correction of coronal malalignment in patients with adult spinal deformity. 
  • Lateral Thoracolumbar Listhesis as an Independent Predictor of Disability in Adult Scoliosis Patients: Multivariable Assessment Before and After Surgical Realignment. 
  • Lengthening Behavior of Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods in Early-Onset Scoliosis: A Multicenter Study. 
  • Long-term outcome of patients with intraspinal neuroblastoma. 
  • Longitudinal scoliosis behavior in Chiari malformation with and without syringomyelia. 
  • Low radius of curvature growth-friendly rib-based implants increase the risk of developing clinically significant proximal junctional kyphosis. 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of the spinal canal following arthrodesis and removal of sublaminar wires. 
  • Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods Graduation: Deformity Control with High Complication Rate. 
  • Magnitude of preoperative cervical lordotic compensation and C2-T3 angle are correlated to increased risk of postoperative sagittal spinal pelvic malalignment in adult thoracolumbar deformity patients at 2-year follow-up. 
  • Male sex may not be associated with worse outcomes in primary all-posterior adult spinal deformity surgery: a multicenter analysis. 
  • Management and outcomes of scoliosis in children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. 
  • Management of complex pediatric and adolescent spinal deformity. 
  • Medical Complications After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Clinical Impact. 
  • Minimally Invasive Advances in Deformity. 
  • Minimally Invasive Spinal Deformity Surgery: Analysis of Patients Who Fail to Reach Minimal Clinically Important Difference. 
  • Minimally invasive deformity correction: surgical technique. 
  • Morbidity and mortality associated with spinal surgery in children: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society morbidity and mortality database. 
  • Multicenter assessment of outcomes and complications associated with transforaminal versus anterior lumbar interbody fusion for fractional curve correction. 
  • Multicenter validation of a formula predicting postoperative spinopelvic alignment. 
  • Mutations in Fibronectin Cause a Subtype of Spondylometaphyseal Dysplasia with "Corner Fractures". 
  • Neurologic Deficits Have a Negative Impact on Patient-Related Outcomes in Primary Presentation Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis Surgical Treatment at One-Year Follow-up. 
  • Neurologic Outcomes of Complex Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Results of the Prospective, Multicenter Scoli-RISK-1 Study. 
  • Neurological symptoms and deficits in adults with scoliosis who present to a surgical clinic: incidence and association with the choice of operative versus nonoperative management. 
  • Neuromuscular Scoliosis: Current Concepts. 
  • Noninvasive measurement and screening techniques for spinal deformities. 
  • Operative Treatment of Severe Scoliosis in Symptomatic Adults: Multicenter Assessment of Outcomes and Complications With Minimum 2-Year Follow-up. 
  • Operative Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis. 
  • Operative versus nonoperative treatment of leg pain in adults with scoliosis: a retrospective review of a prospective multicenter database with two-year follow-up. 
  • Optimal surgical care for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: an international consensus. 
  • Orthopaedic manifestations of Brachmann-de Lange syndrome: a report of 34 patients. 
  • Orthopedic disease burden in adult patients with symptomatic lumbar scoliosis: results from a prospective multicenter study. 
  • Outcomes and Complications in Management of Congenital Myopathy Early-Onset Scoliosis. 
  • Outcomes and complications of extension of previous long fusion to the sacro-pelvis: is an anterior approach necessary? 
  • Outcomes in pediatric patients with Chiari malformation Type I followed up without surgery. 
  • Pain and disability determine treatment modality for older patients with adult scoliosis, while deformity guides treatment for younger patients. 
  • Parents' and patients' perceptions of postoperative appearance in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Patient Factors That Influence Decision Making: Randomization Versus Observational Nonoperative Versus Observational Operative Treatment for Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis. 
  • Patient and operative factors associated with complications following adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery: an analysis of 36,335 patients from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. 
  • Patient profiling can identify patients with adult spinal deformity (ASD) at risk for conversion from nonoperative to surgical treatment: initial steps to reduce ineffective ASD management. 
  • Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity with Previous Fusions Have an Equal Chance of Reaching Substantial Clinical Benefit Thresholds in Health-Related Quality of Life Measures but Do Not Reach the Same Absolute Level of Improvement. 
  • Patients with adult spinal deformity treated operatively report greater baseline pain and disability than patients treated nonoperatively; however, deformities differ between age groups. 
  • Patients with spinal deformity over the age of 75: a retrospective analysis of operative versus non-operative management. 
  • Pediatric spinal deformities. 
  • Pediatric tethered cord syndrome: response of scoliosis to untethering procedures. Clinical article. 
  • Pelvic Nonresponse Following Treatment of Adult Spinal Deformity: Influence of Realignment Strategies on Occurrence. 
  • Pelvic obliquity after fusion of the spine in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • Perioperative pharmacokinetics of methadone in adolescents. 
  • Pilot assessment of a radiologic classification system for segmentation defects of the vertebrae. 
  • Posterior Polyethylene Tethers Reduce Occurrence of Proximal Junctional Kyphosis After Multilevel Spinal Instrumentation for Adult Spinal Deformity: A Retrospective Analysis. 
  • Postoperative Recovery After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Comparative Analysis of Age in 149 Patients During 2-year Follow-up. 
  • Postoperative cervical deformity in 215 thoracolumbar patients with adult spinal deformity: prevalence, risk factors, and impact on patient-reported outcome and satisfaction at 2-year follow-up. 
  • Potential of predictive computer models for preoperative patient selection to enhance overall quality-adjusted life years gained at 2-year follow-up: a simulation in 234 patients with adult spinal deformity. 
  • Predicting the combined occurrence of poor clinical and radiographic outcomes following cervical deformity corrective surgery. 
  • Predictors of Health-Related Quality-of-Life After Complex Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Scoli-RISK-1 Secondary Analysis. 
  • Predictors of progression of scoliosis after decompression of an Arnold Chiari I malformation. 
  • Predictors of serious, preventable, and costly medical complications in a population of adult spinal deformity patients. 
  • Prevalence and Indications for Unplanned Reoperations Following Index Surgery in the Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis NIH-Sponsored Clinical Trial. 
  • Prevalence and type of cervical deformities among adults with Parkinson's disease: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Prevalence and type of cervical deformity among 470 adults with thoracolumbar deformity. 
  • Prevalence, severity, and impact of foraminal and canal stenosis among adults with degenerative scoliosis. 
  • Progress in the understanding of the genetic etiology of vertebral segmentation disorders in humans. 
  • Progressive Spinal Kyphosis in the Aging Population. 
  • Prospective Multicenter Assessment of Early Complication Rates Associated With Adult Cervical Deformity Surgery in 78 Patients. 
  • Prospective multi-centric evaluation of upper cervical and infra-cervical sagittal compensatory alignment in patients with adult cervical deformity. 
  • Proximal junctional failure in primary thoracolumbar fusion/fixation to the sacrum/pelvis for adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis: long-term follow-up of a prospective multicenter cohort of 160 patients. 
  • Proximal junctional kyphosis as a distinct form of adjacent segment pathology after spinal deformity surgery: a systematic review. 
  • Radiographic Fusion Grade Does Not Impact Health-Related Quality of Life in the Absence of Instrumentation Failure for Patients Undergoing Posterior Instrumented Fusion for Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Radiographic restoration of lumbar alignment after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. 
  • Radiographical and Implant-Related Complications in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Incidence, Patient Risk Factors, and Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life. 
  • Radiographical spinopelvic parameters and disability in the setting of adult spinal deformity: a prospective multicenter analysis. 
  • Rates of infection after spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report from the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee. 
  • Rates of new neurological deficit associated with spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality committee. 
  • Recurrent Proximal Junctional Kyphosis: Incidence, Risk Factors, Revision Rates, and Outcomes at 2-Year Minimum Follow-up. 
  • Relationship Among Koenig Depression Scale and Postoperative Outcomes, Ambulation, and Perception of Pain in Elderly Patients (≥65 Years) Undergoing Elective Spinal Surgery for Adult Scoliosis. 
  • Relationship of cine phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging with outcome after decompression for Chiari I malformations. 
  • Removal of sublaminar wires after spinal fusion. 
  • Renal artery injury during lateral transpsoas interbody fusion: case report. 
  • Results of surgical treatment of painful adult scoliosis. 
  • Risk factors for major peri-operative complications in adult spinal deformity surgery: a multi-center review of 953 consecutive patients. 
  • Risk-benefit assessment of surgery for adult scoliosis: an analysis based on patient age. 
  • Rod Fracture After Apparently Solid Radiographic Fusion in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients. 
  • Rod fractures in thoracolumbar fusions to the sacrum/pelvis for adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis: long-term follow-up of a prospective, multicenter cohort of 160 patients. 
  • Rotational thromboelastometry-guided transfusion during lumbar pedicle subtraction osteotomy for adult spinal deformity: preliminary findings from a matched cohort study. 
  • SRS-22R Minimum Clinically Important Difference and Substantial Clinical Benefit After Adult Lumbar Scoliosis Surgery. 
  • Safety and efficacy of concurrent pediatric spinal cord untethering and deformity correction. 
  • Sagittal realignment failures following pedicle subtraction osteotomy surgery: are we doing enough?: Clinical article. 
  • Scoliosis Research Society-Schwab adult spinal deformity classification: a validation study. 
  • Scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality of adult scoliosis surgery. 
  • Selective versus nonselective fusion for idiopathic scoliosis: does lumbosacral takeoff angle change? 
  • Serious Adverse Events Significantly Reduce Patient-Reported Outcomes at 2-Year Follow-up: Nonoperative, Multicenter, Prospective NIH Study of 105 Patients. 
  • Sexual Dysfunction Secondary to Lumbar Stiffness in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients Before and After Long-Segment Spinal Fusion. 
  • Shared Decision-Making for Juvenile Scoliosis. 
  • Short-term morbidity and mortality associated with correction of thoracolumbar fixed sagittal plane deformity: a report from the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee. 
  • Shunt fracture following correction of spinal deformity. Case illustration. 
  • Spinal fusion for pediatric neuromuscular scoliosis: national trends, complications, and in-hospital outcomes. 
  • Spontaneous Lumbar Curve Correction Following Vertebral Body Tethering of Main Thoracic Curves. 
  • Standardized measures of health status and disability and the decision to pursue operative treatment in elderly patients with degenerative scoliosis. 
  • Staying ahead of the curve: the use of spinopelvic parameters to predict curve progression and bracing success in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Steroid treatment and the development of scoliosis in males with duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • Stratifying outcome based on the Oswestry Disability Index for operative treatment of adult spinal deformity on patients 60 years of age or older: a multicenter, multi-continental study on Prospective Evaluation of Elderly Deformity Surgery (PEEDS). 
  • Summary of the first inaugural joint meeting of the International Consortium for scoliosis genetics and the International Consortium for vertebral anomalies and scoliosis, March 16-18, 2017, Dallas, Texas. 
  • Superficial abdominal reflex in syringomyelia: Associations with Chiari I malformation. 
  • Surgeon reliability in rating physical deformity in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Surgery for the Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Patients After Skeletal Maturity: Early Versus Late Surgery. 
  • Surgical considerations for major deformity correction spine surgery. 
  • Surgical decision making in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. 
  • Syrinx location and size according to etiology: identification of Chiari-associated syrinx. 
  • The Effect of Surgeon Experience on Outcomes Following Growth Friendly Instrumentation for Early Onset Scoliosis. 
  • The Impact of Lumbar Spine Disease and Deformity on Total Hip Arthroplasty Outcomes. 
  • The Scoliosis Research Society Health-Related Quality of Life (SRS-30) age-gender normative data: an analysis of 1346 adult subjects unaffected by scoliosis. 
  • The Use of Halo Gravity Traction in Severe, Stiff Scoliosis. 
  • The association between Chiari malformation Type I, spinal syrinx, and scoliosis. 
  • The clinical impact of global coronal malalignment is underestimated in adult patients with thoracolumbar scoliosis. 
  • The comprehensive anatomical spinal osteotomy classification. 
  • The costs and benefits of nonoperative management for adult scoliosis. 
  • The impact of lumbar alignment targets on mechanical complications after adult lumbar scoliosis surgery. 
  • The likelihood of reaching minimum clinically important difference and substantial clinical benefit at 2 years following a 3-column osteotomy: analysis of 140 patients. 
  • The prevalence and impact of scoliosis in Pompe disease: lessons learned from the Pompe Registry. 
  • The role of concurrent fusion to prevent spinal deformity after intramedullary spinal cord tumor excision in children. 
  • The role of traditional growing rods in the era of magnetically controlled growing rods for the treatment of early-onset scoliosis. 
  • The use of three rods in correcting severe scoliosis. 
  • Timing of Complications Occurring Within 30 Days After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Total hospital costs of surgical treatment for adult spinal deformity: an extended follow-up study. 
  • Under Correction of Sagittal Deformities Based on Age-adjusted Alignment Thresholds Leads to Worse Health-related Quality of Life Whereas Over Correction Provides No Additional Benefit. 
  • Unilateral versus bilateral lower extremity motor deficit following complex adult spinal deformity surgery: is there a difference in recovery up to 2-year follow-up? 
  • Upper thoracic versus lower thoracic upper instrumented vertebrae endpoints have similar outcomes and complications in adult scoliosis. 
  • Validation of Adult Spinal Deformity Surgical Outcome Prediction Tools in Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis. 
  • Validity, Reliability, and Responsiveness of SRS-7 as an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Operatively Treated Patients With Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Visual loss after corrective surgery for pediatric scoliosis: incidence and risk factors from a nationwide database. 
  • Visual loss after spine surgery: a population-based study. 
  • Younger Patients Are Differentially Affected by Stiffness-Related Disability Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery.