Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Disease (2013)
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Bull Hosp Jt Dis (2013) · Dec 2018
National Trends in the Prevalence, Treatment, and Associated Spinal Diagnoses Among Pediatric Spondylolysis Patients.
Spondylolysis is an increasingly common diagnoses for young individuals and presents with a wide range of pathological and clinical findings. Most patients are treated conservatively, and surgery is reserved for severe cases. This is a populations study defining the incidence of spondylolysis in the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) and assess trends in diagnoses, causes, and treatments. ⋯ The national incidence of spondylolysis has increased over time, and the surgical rate and treatment techniques have remained constant. The most common concurrent diagnoses were idiopathic scoliosis, cerebral palsy, and spina bifida. Further work is required to determine the significance of these trends and associations.