Recent advances in the treatment of painful adult scoliosis.
Pain is the major cause for surgical intervention in adults with scoliosis and it accounts for 65% of cases. With improved techniques of surgery, including anterior approaches, and better diagnostic methods, including the use of diskography, the satisfactory results of surgical correction have improved from 65-75% to 85-90% of the reported cases. Anterior instrumentation has resulted in decreased pseudarthrosis rates and reduction of lumbar lordosis deformities.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D001863:Bone Screws; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007403:Intervertebral Disc / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009984:Orthopedic Fixation Devices; D011859:Radiography; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*