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Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2015 Septic arthritis is a clinical emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment to avoid significant morbidity and mortality. Polyarticular septic arthritis (PASA) accounts for 15% of all infectious arthritides and rarely occurs in immunocompetent ...
Annelise Miller +2 more
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, 2023 reservedThe scoliosis pathology affects nowadays up to 3% of the population, including mostly adolescents. The causes of the pathology could include genetical predisposition and comorbidities in neurological and physiological development, or could arise ...
LAMONACA, MARTA
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Thoracic Scoliosis Screening in Adolescent Patients with Chest Radiographs [PDF]
, 2019 Aim:School scoliosis screening programs (SSSPs) are valuable and common tools to depict scoliosis prevalence and to take appropriate measures to prevent scoliosis.
Emel Ece Özcan Ekşi +3 more
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Neuroinflammatory signals drive spinal curve formation in zebrafish models of idiopathic scoliosis
Science Advances, 2018 Zebrafish models implicate neuroinflammation as an underlying cause of, and druggable therapeutic target for, idiopathic scoliosis. The etiopathogenesis of idiopathic scoliosis (IS), a highly prevalent spinal deformity that occurs in the absence of ...
J. V. Van Gennip, C. Boswell, B. Ciruna
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome is an ultrarare genetic disease characterized by short stature, distinct craniofacial features, cardiovascular and respiratory fibrosis and stenosis, neurodevelopmental delays, autism, intellectual disability, and hearing loss. The natural history of Myhre syndrome is still not fully understood due to a small patient population ...
Mary K. Young +6 more
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An international meta-analysis confirms the association of BNC2 with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis [PDF]
, 2018 Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a common spinal deformity with the prevalence of approximately 3%. We previously conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using a Japanese cohort and identified a novel locus on chromosome 9p22.2. However,
Texas Scottish Rite Hosp Children +1 more
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by progressive multisystem involvement. Gain‐of‐function missense heterozygous variants affecting the Ile500 residue and Arg496 residue of the SMAD4 gene are implicated in this condition.
Kawmadi Gunawardena +13 more
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BiomedicinesAdolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a three-dimensional spinal deformity that is associated with low bone mineral density (BMD). Vitamin D (Vit-D) supplementation has been suggested to improve BMD in AIS, and its outcomes may be related to genetic ...
Guangpu (Kenneth) Yang +8 more
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Radiation-Induced Intraspinal Chondrosarcoma: A Case Report
Global Spine Journal, 2015 Study Design Case report and review of the literature. Objective To report a unique case of an intraspinal chondrosarcoma that was diagnosed 18 years after radiotherapy for a cervical carcinoma and its remarkably unusual clinical presentation.
Peter Obid MD +6 more
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Can intraoperative T1 tilt predict postoperative shoulder imbalance in patients with Lenke 2 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis?: a retrospective study in Japan [PDF]
Asian Spine JournalStudy Design Retrospective cohort study. Purpose To evaluate whether intraoperative changes in T1 tilt can predict the development of postoperative shoulder imbalance (PSI) in patients with Lenke type 2 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
Yuki Kinoshita +5 more
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