The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2007;89:21-33.
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Natural History of Early Onset Scoliosis

Pedro Fernandes, MD and Stuart L. Weinstein, MD

Corresponding author:
Stuart L. Weinstein, MD
Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics and Spine Deformity, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 01026 JPP, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242.
E-mail address: stuart-weinstein@uiowa.edu

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Idiopathic scoliosis is a structural, lateral curvature of the spine of unknown etiology that can occur in otherwise normal children and adolescents. It is a condition that is affected by growth during the first two decades of life. Harrenstein, in 19361, coined the term infantile idiopathic scoliosis. He related it to rickets, stating that the curve responded well to bracing. In 1951, James2, in his preliminary report on infantile idiopathic scoliosis, described the cases of thirty-three infants who were three years of age or less and had a structural left thoracic curve with no apparent etiology. Most of the infants were boys. The scoliosis in these infants occasionally resolved, but when it did progress it tended to progress to a very serious deformity. Later, in 1954, he classified idiopathic scoliosis into three groups on the basis of age of onset: infantile scoliosis with onset up to three years . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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