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The impact of the leg-lengthening total hip arthroplasty on the coronal alignment of the spine

BACKGROUND: Coronal imbalance of the pelvis is recognized to lead to the development of degenerative lumbar scoliosis. We hypothesized that an abrupt change of pelvic obliquity may show a reproducible trend of coronal compensation in the lumbosacral spine. The aim of the study was to classify the ch...

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Autores principales: Abe, Yuichiro, Sato, Shigenobu, Abe, Satomi, Masuda, Takeshi, Yamada, Kentaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-7161-10-S2-S4