NEURAL AXIS ABNORMALITIES IN EARLY ONSET SCOLIOSIS
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P: 233-237
July 2014

NEURAL AXIS ABNORMALITIES IN EARLY ONSET SCOLIOSIS

J Turk Spinal Surg 2014;25(3):233-237
1. Asst. Prof. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Istanbul Bilim University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul.
2. Assoc.Prof. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Istanbul Bilim University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul.
3. Assoc.Prof. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sisli Florance Nightingale Hospital, İstanbul.
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Received Date: 14.04.2014
Accepted Date: 24.06.2014
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ABSTRACT

Early onset scoliosis includes infantile idiopathic scoliosis, juvenile idiopathic scoliosis, and congenital scoliosis. The types of early onset scoliosis are neuromuscular scoliosis, syndromic scoliosis, and thoracic insufficiency syndrome. Spinal deformities in the growing spine may be observed alongside abnormalities of other organ systems, with neural axis abnormalities being one of the most common. The gold standard in the diagnosis of intraspinal abnormalities is MRI evaluation, and doctors dealing with scoliosis treatment should be cautious about the signs of asymptomatic neural axis abnormalities, in order to avoid the development of neurological deficit.

Keywords:
Neural axis deformities, syringomyelia, early onset scoliosis, MRI