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- Hagglund, Gunnar, et al.
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Growth in girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
- 1992
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In: Spine. - : Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 0362-2436. ; 17:1, s. 108-111
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The height development during childhood and puberty was analyzed in 54 girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis by the use of the Infancy Childhood Puberty growth model, which is based on healthy Swedish children. This model adjusts adolescent reference values for height for individual age at pubertal maturation. The scoliotic girls had an above-average height 2 years before the onset of the pubertal growth spurt. However, because they displayed an early pubertal maturation as well as a low pubertal gain in height, their values were only slightly higher than the reference mean values at maturity. The results indicate an increased growth hormone activity in childhood in girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
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- Johnsson, Karl-Erik, et al.
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Preoperative and postoperative instability in lumbar spinal stenosis
- 1989
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In: Spine. - 0362-2436. ; 14:6, s. 591-593
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sixty-one patients operated on for spinal stenosis, without a fusion, were studied retrospectively. Preoperative instability, as revealed by functional myelography, was found to predict a poor prognosis (P less than 0.01). Women had less favorable results (P less than 0.05). The "slipping" group was significantly more often radically decompressed than the "nonslipping" group (P less than 0.01). Postoperative slipping was found in 26 patients, significantly more often in those with unsatisfactory results (P less than 0.001).
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