Scoliosis Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Scoliosis, including details on treatment, exercises, surgery, symtpoms.

Volume 4 (2008), Issue 6 (June)

1. Automatic Cobb Measurement of Scoliosis Based on Fuzzy Hough Transform with Vertebral Shape Prior.
   J Digit Imaging. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Effects of short-term brace wearing on the pendulum-like mechanism of walking in healthy subjects.
   Gait Posture. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Visual loss after spine surgery: a population-based study.
   Spine, 33(13): 1491-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Complications in long fusions to the sacrum for adult scoliosis: minimum five-year analysis of fifty patients.
   Spine, 33(13): 1478-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Closing-opening wedge osteotomy for the treatment of sagittal imbalance.
   Spine, 33(13): 1470-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Diffuse skull base/cervical fusion syndromes in two siblings with spondylocostal dysostosis syndrome: analysis via three dimensional computed tomography scanning.
   Spine, 33(13): E425-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Pulmonary function following early thoracic fusion in non-neuromuscular scoliosis.
   J Bone Joint Surg Am, 90(6): 1272-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Long-term health-related quality of life after surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and spondylolisthesis.
   J Bone Joint Surg Am, 90(6): 1231-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Suboccipital decompression for Chiari malformation-associated scoliosis: risk factors and time course of deformity progression.
   J Neurosurg Pediatrics, 1(6): 456-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. A novel anterior technique for simultaneous single-stage anterior and posterior cervical release for fixed kyphosis.
    J Neurosurg Spine, 8(6): 594-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Whole-spine dynamic magnetic resonance study of contortionists: anatomy and pathology.
    J Neurosurg Spine, 8(6): 501-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Regulation of apoptosis and neurite extension by FKBP38 is required for neural tube formation in the mouse.
    Genes Cells, 13(6): 635-51. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Bronchial obstruction secondary to idiopathic scoliosis in a child: a case report.
    J Med Case Reports, 2: 171. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Efficacy of a new computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacture orthosis in the treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
    J Pediatr Orthop B, 17(4): 207-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Incidence and risk factors of prolonged mechanical ventilation in neuromuscular scoliosis surgery.
    J Pediatr Orthop B, 17(4): 203-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Evidence of increased bone resorption in neurofibromatosis type 1 using urinary pyridinium crosslink analysis.
    Pediatr Res, 63(6): 697-701. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Vertebral Pathology in an Ornithopod Dinosaur: A Hemivertebra in Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki from the Jurassic of Tanzania.
    Anat Rec (Hoboken). [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Bone Mineral Content and Bone Mineral Density Are Lower in Older than in Younger Females with Rett Syndrome.
    Pediatr Res. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. An unusual presentation of malignant hepatic epithelioid haemangioendothelioma with left pleural and pulmonary localization.
    Pediatr Radiol. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Smart garment for trunk posture monitoring: A preliminary study.
    Scoliosis, 3: 7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Operative treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with posterior pedicle screw-only constructs: minimum three-year follow-up of one hundred fourteen cases.
    Spine, 33(14): 1598-604. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Vertebral coplanar alignment: a standardized technique for three dimensional correction in scoliosis surgery: technical description and preliminary results in lenke type 1 curves.
    Spine, 33(14): 1588-97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Restoration of thoracic kyphosis by posterior instrumentation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: comparative radiographic analysis of two methods of reduction.
    Spine, 33(14): 1579-87. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. The validity of compliance monitors to assess wearing time of thoracic-lumbar-sacral orthoses in children with spinal cord injury.
    Spine, 33(14): 1554-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Differences in CTG triplet repeat expansion in leukemic cells and normal lymphocytes from a 14-year-old female with congenital myotonic dystrophy.
    Pediatr Blood Cancer. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Comparison of surgical and conservative treatment for degenerative lumbar scoliosis.
    Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. The effect of time on qualitative compliance in brace treatment for AIS.
    Prosthet Orthot Int, 32(2): 136-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Treatment of neuromuscular scoliosis with posterior-only pedicle screw fixation.
    J Orthop Surg, 3: 23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. Development of a MEMS-based sensor array to characterise in situ loads during scoliosis correction surgery.
    Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin, 11(4): 335-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Founder SH3TC2 mutations are responsible for a CMT4C French-Canadians cluster.
    Neuromuscul Disord, 18(6): 483-492. [Abstract] [Full-text]
31. Pelvic fracture after scoliosis surgery in osteogenesis imperfecta: a case report.
    J Pediatr Orthop B. [Abstract] [Full-text]
32. Osteoblastoma in the skeletally immature.
    J Pediatr Orthop, 28(5): 555-60. [Abstract] [Full-text]
33. Does early thoracic fusion exacerbate preexisting restrictive lung disease in congenital scoliosis patients?
    J Pediatr Orthop, 28(5): 506-11. [Abstract] [Full-text]
34. Comparative analysis of pedicle screw versus hybrid instrumentation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery.
    Int Orthop, 32(4): 523-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
35. Lung function asymmetry in children with congenital and infantile scoliosis.
    Spine J, 8(4): 639-44. [Abstract] [Full-text]
36. Double-segment total vertebrectomy for the surgical treatment of congenital kyphoscoliosis: a case report.
    Spine J, 8(4): 683-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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