ORLANDO, Fla. — With significant risks associated with misplaced pedicle screws, researchers who studied the prevalence of abnormal pedicles in the spine found this abnormality occurred in 10% of ...

Congenital scoliosis is defined as either a failure of formation or a failure of segmentation of a portion of the spine. This results in mis-shapen or fused bones that can develop into a scoliosis.

—This study reported clinical and radiographic findings in 91 patients from the SPACE cohort study followed over a 4-year period. Men were more likely to demonstrate radiographic progression of ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — As asymptomatic individuals aged, their rate of cervical spine abnormalities increased, according study results presented at the Cervical Spine Research Society Annual Meeting, here.

A 63-year-old man was referred for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the chest following an abnormal echocardiogram. The patient had no physical signs or symptoms of disease. He was taking ...

Dextroscoliosis refers to an abnormal, right-leaning curvature of the spine. It is a type of scoliosis. Treatment can depend on the severity of the condition. The spinal column of people with ...

‌Your spine is made up of 33 vertebrae. Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get narrow or ...