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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Comparison of clinical data and postoperative spinopelvic parameters of four theoretical sagittal profiles

From: Validation of Roussouly classification in predicting the occurrence of adjacent segment disease after short-level lumbar fusion surgery

 

Type 1

Type 2

Type 3

Type 4

P value

Age at surgery, years

62.3 ± 9.7

59.3 ± 9.0

60.7 ± 10.3

57.4 ± 9.6

0.162

Fusion level

 L4–5

10 (41.6%)

12 (40.0%)

68 (50.0%)

28 (63.6%)

0.163

 L3–5

14 (58.3%)

18 (60.0%)

68 (50.0%)

16 (36.4%)

 PT, °

12.6 ± 4.2

12.3 ± 5.7

16.5 ± 5.1

23.3 ± 6.9

 < 0.001

 PI, °

38.9 ± 4.1

38.3 ± 4.4

51.4 ± 4.4

64.5 ± 4.0

 < 0.001

 SS, °

26.3 ± 4.7

26.0 ± 6.1

34.9 ± 5.0

41.2 ± 5.7

 < 0.001

 LL, °

42.2 ± 5.8

38.4 ± 9.9

48.6 ± 8.8

53.1 ± 11.8

 < 0.001

 DL, °

30.6 ± 4.6

24.8 ± 8.3

31.4 ± 7.8

30.1 ± 10.7

0.002

 SL, °

19.5 ± 5.4

15.4 ± 9.0

20.8 ± 6.0

26.2 ± 7.1

 < 0.001

 LDI, %

73.0 ± 9.7

65.8 ± 19.3

65.2 ± 15.0

56.3 ± 14.6

 < 0.001

 SVA, mm

1.3 ± 28.4

5.9 ± 31.4

7.3 ± 28.4

14.2 ± 26.4

0.305

PI − LL

  ≤ 10°

25 (100%)

27 (93.1%)

108 (79.4%)

20 (45.5%)

 < 0.001

  > 10°

0 (0%)

2 (6.9%)

28 (20.6%)

24 (54.5%)

  1. Values are presented as number (%) or mean ± standard deviation unless otherwise indicated
  2. PT pelvic tilt, PI pelvic incidence, SS sacral slope, LL lumbar lordosis, DL distal lordosis, SL segmental lordosis, LDI lordosis distribution index, SVA sagittal vertical axis