[Scoliosis in infancy].
1. The paper deals with 101 patients (52 male, 49 female) who have been treated in the first and second years of life because of resolving scoliosis and could be re-examined later at the age of 15 between 17 years. 2. The clinical and roentgenological findings of seven patients only had been normalized, where as in all other cases low lateral deviations of the spinal column (77 times), frequently at a modified type of curvature (44 times) or structural modifications (77 times, 17 spinal columns without lateral deviations), or not rarely, even both of them, had been found. 3. During development it came to a displacement of the vertex-vertebra on a average of 1-2 vertebrae to caudal. 4. No inspected resolving scoliosis had change over into a progressive scoliosis, a coherence consists not with idiopathic scoliosis of the prepuberty and puberty.
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Klinik für Orthopädie, Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000379:methods*; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*
Zur Problematik der Säuglingsskoliose.