%0 Journal Article
%T Hemidystrophic Thorax Mimicking Scoliosis
%A Hans-Rudolf Weiss
%A Sarah Seibel
%J Archive of "The Open Orthopaedics Journal".
%D 2018
%R 10.2174/1874325001812010252
%X We regularly use Angle of Trunk Rotation (ATR) measurements for scoliosis screening and also for clinical follow-up of our scoliosis patients under treatment. In some patients, when ATR measurements exceed the screening threshold but without a significant degree of curvature on the X-ray (Cobb angle), a Hemidystrophic Thorax (HDT) is diagnosed. The purpose of this paper was to present a case series of patients with this kind of thoracic deformity because this may be mimicking scoliosis to a significant degree
%K Hemidystrophic thorax
%K Thoracic deformities
%K Scoliosis
%K Scoliotic deformity
%K ATR
%K Cobb angle
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062911/