THE MECHANISM OF THE STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN SCOLIOSIS

1 July 1949

journal article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Vol. 31 (3) , 519-528
https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-194931030-00007

Abstract

1. The vertebral deformation of structural scoliosis can be explained by an asymmetrical disturbance of epiphyseal growth by pressure. 2. "Vertebral epiphysitis" is a related lesion.

Keywords

SPINE/CURVATURE