Grading apical vertebral rotation without a computed tomography scan: A clinically relevant system based on the radiographic appearance of bilateral pedicle screws

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1855-1862

  Upasani, Vidyadhar V ^a   Chambers, Reid C ^b   Dalal, Ali H ^a   Shah, Suken A ^c   Lehman, Ronald A ^d   Newton, Peter O ^a,b,e  

^a University of California San Diego ^*  (United States)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis; Apical vertebral rotation; Trigonometric model

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLE SCREW; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSITION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATION; SPINE MALFORMATION; STANDING; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE SCREWS; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTATION; SCOLIOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68949150508     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181abf797     Document Type: Article

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