ArticleSpine deformity2025
Human spinal height growth: a description of normal spine growth patterns and adult spine height prediction from a longitudinal cohort.
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- A comprehensive narrative review of scoliosis in children and adolescents: epidemiology, screening strategies, therapeutic interventions, and biomechanical research.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
- Surgical Treatment of Tethered Cord Syndrome by Release of Filum Terminalis: A Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Predictive value of the ratio of fusion segments to main curve segments for postoperative curve progression in congenital scoliosis with solitary hemivertebra.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
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Abstract
purposeThis study describes spinal growth and predicts future growth by standardizing timing relative to the growth spurt.
methodsFrom a longitudinal cohort of normal, healthy children followed through their growth, we identified those who completed their growth and compared spinal heights to chronological age and timing relative to the growth spurt. Anthropometrics and radiographs were correlated to identify heights to C1, T1, and S1 using three separate methods with validation performed by comparing to heights predicted by pelvic width. Heights and spinal lengths were normalized to percentages of adult lengths, and multipliers of growth remaining determined for both age and timing relative to PHV
resultsFifty-four subjects completed their growth at the study terminus (35f, 19 m). We identified multipliers allowing calculations of adult spine length based on the child's current timing relative to peak growth. At PHV
conclusionThis study identifies multipliers of spinal growth determination and identifies their values relative to the adolescent growth spurt timing which is known to be closely related to skeletal maturity. Timing compared to the PGA
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