Influence of evaluation of clinical manifestation to the surgical choices in degenerative scoliosis / 中国矫形外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Although the development of diagnosis and treatment about degenerative scoliosis has improved significantly,it still remains controversial about how to select appropriate surgical methods.The goal of this review is to raise awareness and stimulate attention on the correlation between clinical manifestation and spinal deformity,which is one of the key factors to affect the surgical outcomes on the opinion of more and more researchers in the past 20 years.When an adult spinal deformity is not the source of symptoms and the clinical symptom is outside of curve,symptomatic relief may be provided through limited decompression.If thoroughly decompression,it will be enough to combine with short segment fixation.However,while an adult deformity is the source of symptoms and the clinical symptoms is within the curve,the options are typically limited decompression on the basis of good stability,otherwise,it will be the only consideration of decompression combined with long segment fixation.