Scoliosis, Pediatric

<bold>Figure 26.7</bold> Scoliosis checkup. (<bold>A</bold>) Viewing from the back, the examiner checks the symmetry of the girl's shoulders. She will also look for a prominent shoulder blade, an unequal distance between the girl's arms and waist, a higher or more prominent hip, and curvature of the spinal column. (<bold>B</bold>) With the child bending over and touching her toes, the examiner checks for a curvature of the spinal column.

<bold>Figure 26.7</bold> Scoliosis checkup. (<bold>A</bold>) Viewing from the back, the examiner checks the symmetry of the girl's shoulders. She will also look for a prominent shoulder blade, an unequal distance between the girl's arms and waist, a higher or more prominent hip, and curvature of the spinal column. (<bold>B</bold>) With the child bending over and touching her toes, the examiner checks for a curvature of the spinal column.

Scoliosis. Scoliosis is the abnormal lateral and rotational curvature of the vertebral column.

<bold><italic>FIGURE 9-44.</bold></bold> Lumbar spondylolysis. Imaging of the lumbar spine in four separate patients with low back pain, two with L4 spondylolysis <bold>(A,B,C,D,E)</bold> and two with L5 spondylolysis <bold>(F,G,H,I,J,K)</bold> demonstrates the multimodality approach to imaging when assessing for spondylolysis/spondylolisthesis. Conventional lumbar radiographs, including lateral and bilateral obliques (A,B,C) nicely demonstrate the bony break (<italic>arrows in A</bold>) within the region of the bilateral L...

Scoliosis is a lateral deviation of the spine. View of a right thoracic scoliosis as the convexity of the curve is to the right.

Causes of Low Back Pain Sagittal View Labeled

Figure 2-22 <bold>COBB'S METHOD OF SCOLIOSIS EVALUATION.</bold> The angle measured is shown (<italic>double-headed arrow</bold>).

Figure 2-23 <bold>RISSER-FERGUSON METHOD OF SCOLIOSIS EVALUATION.</bold> The angle measured is shown (<italic>double-headed arrow</bold>).

Figure 4-20 <bold>AP FULL SPINE.</bold> The right primary thoracicscoliosis is stabilized with a short-segment Harrington's rod.<bold><italic>COMMENT:</bold></bold> Technical problems, especially in obtaining adequate collimation, make it diffficult to reduce patient dose and exclude radiosensitive tissues such as the breast, thyroid,and gonads when obtaining a full spine projection.

<bold><italic>Figure 12.9</bold></bold>. <bold>A.</bold> Marked thoracic scoliosis. Forward flexion accentuates the finding <bold>(B).</bold>

Fig. 2. The sitting balance of this patient with cerebral palsy was affected not only by scoliosis but also by "windswept" hip contractures: adduction-extension on the left and flexion-abduction on the right.

Fig. 8 Fifteen-year-old girl with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder and progressive 52-degree scoliosis, as well as increased kyphosis <bold>(A,B)</bold>. Posterior fusion of the thoracic curve was performed <bold>(C,D)</bold>.

<bold>Figure 33-1</bold> Scoliosis.