Cross-sectional analysis of associated anomalies and vertebral anomaly location in 1289 surgical congenital scoliosis

Purpose This study systematically analyzed and assessed the interrelationships among vertebral anomaly location, congenital scoliosis (CS) type and associated abnormality prevalence. Methods We retrospectively extracted medical records of 1289 CS inpatients surgically treated in our institute from J...

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Published in:European spine journal 2021-12, Vol.30 (12), p.3577-3584
Main Authors: Lin, Guanfeng, Chai, Xiran, Wang, Shengru, Yang, Yang, Su, Zhe, Du, You, Xu, Xiaolin, Ye, Xiaohan, Shen, Jianxiong, Zhang, Jianguo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cross-Sectional Studies
Demography
Echocardiography
Humans
Lumbar Vertebrae
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medical records
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Musculoskeletal Abnormalities
Neurosurgery
Original Article
Patients
Retrospective Studies
Risk factors
Scoliosis
Scoliosis - diagnostic imaging
Scoliosis - epidemiology
Scoliosis - surgery
Surgical Orthopedics
Thorax
Vertebrae
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Summary:Purpose This study systematically analyzed and assessed the interrelationships among vertebral anomaly location, congenital scoliosis (CS) type and associated abnormality prevalence. Methods We retrospectively extracted medical records of 1289 CS inpatients surgically treated in our institute from January 2010–December 2019. All patients underwent spinal X-ray, CT, MRI, echocardiogram, urogenital ultrasound and systemic physical examination. We analyzed information on demographics, CS type, associated anomalies and vertebral anomaly location. Results Cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebral anomalies were found in 5.7%, 78.1% and 33.6% of patients, respectively. 82.7% had one region involved. 59.5% with cervical malformations had mixed defects and 61.1% with lumbar malformations exhibited failure of formation. The musculoskeletal defect prevalence was 28.4%, 19.1% and 9.0% in patients with cervical, thoracic and lumbar anomalies. The intraspinal defect prevalence was 33.4% and 20.7% for thoracic and lumbar anomalies. 86.5% of patients with cervical anomalies had more than one region involved, while 78.1% and 62.2% with thoracic and lumbar anomalies, respectively, had only one region involved. Conclusions Cervical malformations had higher prevalence of mixed defects, musculoskeletal and intraspinal defects and multi-region involved. Thoracic malformations had higher prevalence of intraspinal and musculoskeletal defects and more involvement of only one vertebral region. Lumbar vertebral malformation patients had much lower prevalence of intraspinal and musculoskeletal defects and more involvement of only one vertebral region. Cervical malformation was a risk factor for more associated anomalies and more severe vertebral anomalies, which deserves more attention from surgeons in outpatient clinic.
ISSN:0940-6719
1432-0932
DOI:10.1007/s00586-021-06898-x