TY - JOUR AU - Presciutti, Steven M. AU - Louie, Philip K. AU - Khan, Jannat M. AU - Basques, Bryce A. AU - Saifi, Comron AU - Dewald, Christopher J. AU - Samartzis, Dino AU - An, Howard S. PY - 2018 DA - 2018/12/27 TI - Sagittal spinopelvic malalignment in degenerative scoliosis patients: isolated correction of symptomatic levels and clinical decision-making JO - Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders SP - 28 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - This study aims to determine if (1) loss of lumbar lordosis (LL), often associated with degenerative scoliosis (DS), is structural or rather largely due to positional factors secondary to spinal stenosis; (2) only addressing the symptomatic levels with a decompression and posterolateral fusion in carefully selected patients will result in improvement of sagittal malalignment; and (3) degree of sagittal plane correction achieved with such a local fusion could be predicted by routine pre-operative imaging. SN - 2397-1789 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13013-018-0174-y DO - 10.1186/s13013-018-0174-y ID - Presciutti2018 ER -