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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
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Left Thoracic Scoliosis



- Discussion:
    - left thoracic curvatures are uncommon (1-2% of curves)
    - associatted conditions: (33 % of patients)
          - occult syrinx;
                - treatment of the scoliosis without recognition of syringomyelia and
                      Chiari malformation can lead to paraplegia;
          - Arnold-Chiari
          - spinal cord tumor;
          - neuromuscular disorder;
    - MRI is usually indicated;




Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.