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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume, Vol 68-B, Issue 5, 724-728
Copyright © 1986 by British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery

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Observations on the growth of the adolescent spine

AG Veldhuizen, P Baas, and PJ Webb

We have measured the increase in height and width of the vertebral bodies and expressed them as percentages of the total growth in children aged 10 to 17 years. The first group, 10 boys and 10 girls, each had a single thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis while the second group, 10 girls, each had a single lumbar adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. No significant differences were found between the growth increments and spinal dimensions of the vertebral bodies involved in the scoliotic curve and those vertebrae outside the curve in the same patient. The vertebrae were more slender in girls than in boys.




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Hip, Knee, Trauma, Upper limb, Foot & Ankle, Paediatrics, Oncology, Spine, Arthroplasty, General