A New Method Using Top Views of the Spine to Predict the Progression of Curves in Idiopathic Scoliosis During Growth

Abstract

The present study has evaluated factors relating to progression in scoliosis using the top view. These results may help predict the risk of progression in idiopathic scoliosis.

Three-dimensional easy morphological (3-DEMO) classification of scoliosis, part I

“…By adopting the global reference system, the spine is projected in the horizontal plane in relation to a reference axis which corresponds to the line of gravity and not to a spinal vertical line derived from spinal landmarks. Kohashi et al [34] published a study in which a spinal Top View is proposed. In this case, the view was obtained from two stereoscopic radiographs, by feeding into a personal computer the data regarding the position of vertebrae centroids identified on radiographic images.…”

Radiographic versus ultrasound evaluation of the Risser Grade in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a prospective study of 46 patients

“…As the chronologic age of the patient is assumed to be inaccurate [14,16,18,22,35] several parameters have been proposed in maturity determination, such as the rip apophysis, timing of menarche, peak height velocity, assessment of the olecranon, calendar and skeletal age of the hand or wrist, the Risser sign, and electromyography [8, 9, 14-16, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 40]. Evaluating Risser Grades requires plain radiographs of the iliac apophysis.…”

A semi-automated method using interpolation and optimisation for the 3D reconstruction of the spine from bi-planar radiography: a precision and accuracy study

“…The 3D reconstruction in upright posture allows investigating specific 3D parameters that are clinically relevant for the study of spinal alignment, especially in the case of scoliotic spine: vertebral and intervertebral 3D orientation [26,29,32,51,60], 3D location of vertebrae in the transversal plane (top view) [14,27,33,40], with respect to gravity line [30] or to 3D plumb lines [32] and planes of maximal deformity [5,11,12,50]. To do so, a vertebral reference frame [62] is deduced from the 3D reconstructed landmarks.…”