ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2022
The role of paraspinal muscle degeneration in coronal imbalance in patients with degenerative scoliosis.
Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Extent of fatty infiltration in lumbar paraspinal muscles in adults with degenerative scoliosis: segmental differences in muscle involvement.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Pooled it
- Automated lumbar muscles segmentation with segment anything model for adult degenerative scoliosis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- Effects of paraspinal muscle atrophy and fatty degeneration on segmental kyphosis after conservative treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture (OVCF) in postmenopausal women.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- Paraspinal muscle degeneration patterns in degenerative spinal deformity: a histological, morphological, and muscle functional comparison.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Diagonal paraspinal muscle degeneration and osteoporosis were associated with rotatory subluxation in degenerative lumbar scoliosis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- Association of supine apical vertebral rotation with three-dimensional deformity and global spinal alignment in adult degenerative scoliosis: a retrospective study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Determining the risk factors for postoperative mechanical complication in degenerative scoliosis: a machine learning approach based on musculoskeletal metrics.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- A Commentary on "The Contribution of Paraspinal Sarcopenia on Sagittal Imbalance in Degenerative Kyphosis".Neurospine · 2025Article
- The Contribution of Paraspinal Sarcopenia on Sagittal Imbalance in Degenerative Kyphosis.Neurospine · 2025Article
- An Inter- and Intra-Rater Agreement Assessment of Two Novel Classification Systems for Coronal Imbalance in Adult Scoliosis and Spine Deformity.Orthopaedic surgery · 2025Article
- Muscle fat infiltration: a narrative review of the magnetic resonance (MR)-based evaluation methods and their clinical applications.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Review
- Article
- Quantitative analysis of paravertebral muscle asymmetry and its correlation with spinal deformity in patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis: a retrospective case-control study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- The Role of Muscle Biomarkers in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals dysfunction of the paraspinal muscles in patients with chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Clinical Results of 10-mm Endoscopic Minimally Invasive Interlaminar Decompression in the Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis and Simple Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.Clinical interventions in aging · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Coronal imbalance in degenerative scoliosis is common and is highly correlated with health-related quality of life. Paraspinal muscle is critical to spine stability, but little is known about its contribution to coronal imbalance in degenerative scoliosis. This study aims to investigate the relationship between paraspinal muscle (PSM) degeneration and coronal imbalance in patients with degenerative scoliosis (DS). Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. A total of 117 patients with DS were retrospectively reviewed. Parameters of PSM (bilateral cross-sectional area, CSA; fat infiltration rate, FI%) at the apical disc and adjacent levels were quantitatively evaluated using MRI. Standing whole-spine radiograph was used to evaluate the coronal (Cobb angle, CA; coronal balance distance, CBD) and sagittal (thoracic kyphosis, TK; lumbar lordosis, LL; sagittal vertical axis, SVA) parameters. Patients were divided into 3 groups: coronal balanced (Type A), coronal imbalanced shifting to concavity (Type B), and coronal imbalanced shifting to convexity (Type C). Results: Based on our criteria, 56 patients were assigned to Type A, 34 patients to Type B, and 27 patients to Type C. There was no significant difference on the sagittal profiles and CSA between the groups. However, Type A showed significantly lower FI% than Type B and Type C on both concavity and convexity (Concave side: Type A Conclusions: DS patients with coronal imbalance demonstrated a worse PSM degeneration when compared with those without coronal imbalance. Besides, PSM degeneration strongly correlated with coronal imbalance, which implies that PSM degeneration may contribute to the coronal imbalance in patients with DS.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.