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ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2023

The Obeid-coronal malalignment classification is reliable and helps guiding decision-making and surgical management of adult spinal deformities: letter to the editor of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.

Anouar Bourghli, Louis Boissière, Ibrahim Obeid

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Article in BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Anouar BourghliSpine surgery department, King Faisal Special Hospital and Research Center, P.O.Box 3354, 11211, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Anouar.bourghli@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2852-0230
Louis BoissièreClinique du Dos, Elsan Jean Villar Private hospital, Bordeaux, France.
Ibrahim ObeidClinique du Dos, Elsan Jean Villar Private hospital, Bordeaux, France.

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Abstract

A recently published article by Zhang et al. in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders reported that the classification of coronal deformity based on preoperative global coronal malalignment for adult spinal deformity is questionable. The aim of the paper was to specifically discredit the Obeid-Coronal Malalignment (O-CM) classification. In this correspondence, we thought it judicious to clarify misunderstood concepts by the authors. We highlight several limitations of their study, and explain the deep interest of the classification from our perspective in order to avoid misleading the readers. Overarching, we aim to help the colleagues through a constructive rather than destructive approach to better understand the foundations of a coronal malalignment classification.

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Musculoskeletal DiseasesAdultHumansOsteotomyRetrospective StudiesCoronal malalignmentObeid classificationSpinal deformity

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PMID36823582
PMCPMC9948463

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