Table 3

List of individual complications occurring in the different scoliosis aetiologies as found in the reviewed literature

Complication

NM

AS

IS

CS

Mixed

Death

6,5%

(3S) 2,5%

0,03%

Pseudarthrosis

(7S) 13,1%

(7S) 17,5%

(5S) 5%

(4S) 23%

Deep wound infection

(3S) 13,2%

(S2) 3,1%

4,7%

Neurologic Complications

(2S) 7,5%

(3S) 1,5%

9%

(4S) 2,7%

Delayed Infection

(2S) 2,9%

Pedicle screw mispl.

(2S) 15,8%

10,5%

Delayed Paraparesis

X

Individual complications as have been found in the literature reviewed for the rates of complications [13,68,69,71,77,88,135,138-215] as a descriptive analysis for neuromuscular scoliosis (NM), adult scoliosis (AS), idiopathic scoliosis (IS), congenital scoliosis (CS) and scoliosis of mixed aetiology (Mixed). Whenever there was more than one study found describing a certain complication rate, the number of studies (S) has been given and the rates have been averaged. X = described once.

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