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Defining Adult Lumbar Scoliosis

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Adult lumbar scoliosis is defined as coronal spinal curvature with Cobb angle >10° in skeletally mature patients [1]. Often this is associated with an abnormal sagittal (lordotic or kyphotic) curve and a rotational component resulting in a three-dimensional deformity [2]. Lumbar scoliosis may be associated with adjacent (nonstructural) compensatory curves involving thoracolumbar spine [3]. Thus it is typically described in the literature in the broader context of thoracolumbar adult spinal deformity (ASD).

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Durga R. Sure MD, Michael LaBagnara MD, Justin S. Smith MD & Christopher I. Shaffrey MD

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Sure, D.R., LaBagnara, M., Smith, J.S., Shaffrey, C.I. (2017). Defining Adult Lumbar Scoliosis. In: Klineberg, E. (eds) Adult Lumbar Scoliosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47709-1_1

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