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Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

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Idiopathic scoliosis is a structural three-dimensional deformation of the spine with coronal Cobb angle greater than 10°. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) occurs between the age of 10 years and skeletal maturity. Epidemiological studies estimate a 1–3 % prevalence of idiopathic scoliosis in the adolescent population. However, most curves do not require treatment.

One to 3 % of adolescents have a spinal curve greater than 10° in the coronal plane with an equal repartition among boys and girls. There is an equal prevalence between the sexes for small curves, with increasing female prevalence for larger and progressive curves. At adolescence, the prevalence of curves greater than 40° is less than 0.1 %, with a sex ratio of girls to boys of 10:1.

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Sales de Gauzy, J., Accadbled, F. (2016). Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis. In: van de Kelft, E. (eds) Surgery of the Spine and Spinal Cord. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27613-7_20

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