Clinical differences in preoperative symptoms and surgical outcomes between early and late-teen patients with Lenke type 5C adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
Tomohiro BannoYu YamatoHiroki ObaTetsuro OhbaTomohiko HasegawaGo YoshidaHideyuki ArimaShin OeKoichiro IdeTomohiro YamadaJun TakahashiHirotaka HaroYukihiro MatsuyamaPublished in: European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society (2023)
In patients with Lenke type 5C AIS, we showed that late teens had significantly worse SRS-22r scores than did early teens. Postoperative coronal malalignment was frequently observed in the late teens due to the reduced ability of compensation by subjacent disc wedging.