Norman Ramirez, David Deliz-Jimenez, Norberto Torres-Lugo, Gerardo Olivella, Patrick Cahill, Purnendu Gupta, Sumeet Garg, Joshua Pahys, Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong
BACKGROUND: Back pain, as a clinical marker in scoliosis, has been associated with underlying pathology for many years, warranting further magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Failures of segmentation, mixed defects, female gender, rib anomalies, congenital thoracic anomalies, and neurocutaneous markers are known risk factors for abnormal MRI pathology findings in patients with congenital early-onset scoliosis (Congenital-EOS). Yet, back pain has not been evaluated as a risk factor for underlying MRI pathology in patients with Congenital-EOS...
January 25, 2024: Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics