Compensatory mechanisms recruited against proximal junctional kyphosis by patients instrumented from the thoracolumbar junction to the iliac.
Javier PizonesFrancisco Javier Sánchez Perez-GruesoLucía Moreno-ManzanaroFernando EscámezCaglar YilgorAlba Vila-CasademuntNicomedes Fernández-BaílloJosé Miguel Sánchez-MárquezIbrahim ObeidFrank KleinstückAhmet AlanayFerran Pellisénull nullPublished 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 (2021)
In patients fused from the TL junction to the iliac, those having greater postoperative pelvic rotation reserve showed greater capacity to recruit compensatory mechanisms against PJK/PJF.