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Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: is the search for aetiology constrained by the orthosis?C J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12 Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 88:222-5. 2002..If bracing does not significantly improve prognosis, its efficacy cannot be accepted and the hypothesis of aetiology which it underpins has no greater standing than any other...
The natural history of early onset scoliosisC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre and Orthopaedic Department, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin Dublin 12 Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 91:68-70. 2002..This result makes imperative a properly constructed study on the evolution and long-term outcome of this less common but more significant type of spinal deformity...
Scoliosis: a reviewCaroline J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Pediatr Surg Int 24:129-44. 2008..Until they are resolved, all conclusions on management must be provisional. This is where innovative thinking needs to be directed...
Growth patterns in children with congenital vertebral anomalyCaroline J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Diabetes and Endocrine Centre, Orthopaedic Department, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:1191-201. 2002..Height and weight data in children with congenital vertebral anomaly, recorded routinely during clinical follow-up, were analyzed...
Respiratory function and cosmesis at maturity in infantile-onset scoliosisC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 28:2397-406. 2003..Retrospective review of patient records, clinical and radiographic, and patient recall for full pulmonary function studies and surface topography...
The relationship between minor asymmetry and early idiopathic scoliosisC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12, Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 88:17-9. 2002..So they should not be classed as scoliosis but they are still relevant to the broader picture of aetiology...
Surface topography and the several components of scoliotic deformityC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12, Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 88:67-9. 2002..It is concluded that deformity in scoliosis is not determined exclusively by the spinal curve...
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: natural history and prognosisC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre and Orthopaedic Department, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin Dublin 12 Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 91:59-63. 2002..Surgery was recommended for 27% overall. A sub-group with more complete data diagnosed after bracing had been discontinued confirmed the findings...
Growth patterns in patients with unoperated congenital vertebral anomalyC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre and Orthopaedic Department, Our Lady s Hospitalfor Sick Children, Crumlin Dublin 12 Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 91:101-3. 2002..At puberty, they lagged behind their peers and at maturity were shorter than average. This does not appear to be a hormonal problem, and suggests a fundamental failure of growth...
The rib hump after surgery for early onset spinal deformityC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre and Orthopaedic Department, Our Lady s Hospitalfor Sick Children, Crumlin Dublin 12 Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 91:465-8. 2002..25 children undergoing spinal fusion for progressive and severe deformity have sequential topographic scans which show that, despite measures to control the rib hump, progression after surgery is the rule...
Long-term results from in situ fusion for congenital vertebral deformityCaroline J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:619-28. 2002..Retrospective review of long-term outcome of fusion in situ for congenital vertebral anomaly with particular emphasis on cosmesis and the incidence of reoperation...
Surface topography, Cobb angles, and cosmetic change in scoliosisC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre and Orthopaedic Department, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children and the Department of Community Health and General Practice, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 26:E55-63. 2001..Preliminary analysis of the clinical value of surface topography in a spinal deformity clinic...
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: the effect of brace treatment on the incidence of surgeryC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre and Orthopaedic Department, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 26:42-7. 2001..Retrospective analysis of outcome in terms of incidence of surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis during a period when bracing was not practiced...
Left thoracic curve patterns and their association with diseaseC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 24:1228-33. 1999..Analysis of clinical database material collected prospectively...
Scoliosis and developmental theory: adolescent idiopathic scoliosisC J Goldberg
Children s Research Center, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 22:2228-37; discussion 2237-8. 1997..The differences between screening and general clinic referrals suggest the need for natural history studies, and treatment protocols also should consider the provenance of the individuals described...
School scoliosis screening and the United States Preventive Services Task Force. An examination of long-term resultsC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 20:1368-74. 1995..045%). CONCLUSIONS. The incidence of significant scoliosis and of surgery is low and independent of changes in bracing policy. The validity of screening to cause significant change in prevalence must be challenged...
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis--early menarche, normal growthC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 18:529-35. 1993..This points to an early pubertal growth spurt in girls with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis but not to any outright abnormality of growth or development...
Left thoracic scoliosis configurations. Why so different?C J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 19:1385-9. 1994..CONCLUSIONS. The left pattern of scoliosis in the absence of overt neuropathology carries a benign prognosis. This contradictory observation is examined in the light of biological asymmetry...
A statistical comparison between natural history of idiopathic scoliosis and brace treatment in skeletally immature adolescent girlsC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 18:902-8. 1993....
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: metric analysis of the deformityC J Goldberg
Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 123:109-16. 2006..This is a developmental, rather than pathological, phenomenon. It makes questions of aetiology redundant and natural history logical...
Fluctuating asymmetry and vertebral malformation. A study of palmar dermatoglyphics in congenital spinal deformitiesC J Goldberg
Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 22:775-9. 1997....
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and cerebral asymmetry. An examination of a nonspinal perceptual systemC J Goldberg
Children s Research Centre, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 20:1685-91. 1995..Subjects with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis showed generalized asymmetry of many functions and structures. An examination at the level of morphology and development is proposed...
Handedness and spinal deformityC J Goldberg
Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 123:442-8. 2006..Z.Orthop. 109(14):676-689. 1971). Lateralisation is undoubtedly a factor in scoliosis, but does not have a simple causal relationship, probably deriving from the underlying scoliotic process, rather than contributing to it...
Surface topography and vectors: a new measure for the three dimensional quantification of scoliotic deformityC J Goldberg
Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, Ireland
Stud Health Technol Inform 123:449-55. 2006....
Idiopathic scoliosis and asymmetry of form and functionC J Goldberg
Department of Orthopaedics, Our Lady s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 16:84-7. 1991....
