Surgical Procedures Used for Correction of Scheuermann’s Kyphosis: A Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Kyphosis correction of the patients included in all studies.

Study	Cobb angle (pre-op)		Cobb angle (post-op)		Correction (degree)		Correction rate
	AP	PO	AP	PO	AP	PO	AP	PO
Dikici et al. [5]	—	73.3 ± 7.9	—	39 ± 8.7	—	—	—	46% ± 13
Riouallon et al. [6]	76 ± 23	78 ± 13	57 ± 21	61 ± 14	—	—	—	—
Cobden et al. [4]	—	79.8	—	44.9	—	—	—	—
Graat et al. [18]	85	79	62.1	65.6	—	—	27%	17%
Etemadifar et al. [16]	83.7 ± 8.1	81.9 ± 9.4	43 ± 7.5	43.2 ± 9.8	42.2	41.8	50.5%	51%
Faldini et al. [17]	—	78.6 ± 11.2	—	45.8 ± 4.4	—	—	—	—
Koller et al. [10]	75.9 ± 9.6	78.7 ± 10.1	43.4 ± 12.3	47.1 ± 11.7	33.7 ± 14.7	30.6 ± 12.4	—	—
Koller et al. [19]	67.2 ± 12.2	—	38.5 ± 14.8	—	28.9 ± 13.4	—	—	—
Behrbalk et al. [14] [1]	—	72 ± 7	—	43 ± 9	—	29 ± 9	—	—
Behrbalk et al. [14] [2]	—	78 ± 9	—	44 ± 8	—	34 ± 6	—	—
Temponi et al. [21]	77.6 ± 10.4	72.9 ± 12.0	35.8 ± 8.0	44.3 ± 9.8	41.7 ± 12	28.6 ± 6	53.2 ± 11.9	39.3 ± 7.8
Tsutsui et al. [22]	84.9 ± 10.2	82.7 ± 6.4	48.6 ± 5.7	47.9 ± 5.4	—	—	—	—
Dasilvaherrero et al. [15]	—	78.8 ± 7.59	—	47.5 ± 12.54	—	33.9 ± 9.53	—	43.25% ± 12.56%
Koptan et al. [20]	79.8 (65–98)	85.5 (69–102)	—	—	38.8 (37–45)	45.1 (40–49)	48.7%	52.2%

AP, combined anterior-posterior approach; PO, posterior-only approach; op, operation.