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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Comparison of clinical data and postoperative spinopelvic parameters of four current 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

61.3 ± 11.3

60.2 ± 10.8

59.4 ± 9.5

61.3 ± 8.0

0.714

Fusion level

 L4–5

12(35.3%)

24(32.4%)

68(65.4%)

14(63.6%)

 < 0.001

 L3–5

22(64.7%)

50(67.6%)

36(34.6%)

8(36.4%)

 PT, °

14.8 ± 5.2

18.5 ± 7.1

16.2 ± 6.1

17.4 ± 6.9

0.024

 PI, °

42.3 ± 6.9

46.9 ± 9.0

53.9 ± 6.6

63.6 ± 5.3

 < 0.001

 SS, °

27.4 ± 4.8

28.4 ± 4.9

37.7 ± 3.0

46.2 ± 3.2

 < 0.001

 LL, °

41.9 ± 6.9

39.8 ± 7.5

51.7 ± 7.6

61.8 ± 7.6

 < 0.001

 DL, °

31.7 ± 5.4

24.1 ± 7.3

32.5 ± 7.3

36.2 ± 9.2

 < 0.001

 SL, °

19.7 ± 5.1

18.2 ± 7.9

21.8 ± 5.7

27.8 ± 8.0

 < 0.001

 LDI, %

77.0 ± 15.3

61.4 ± 17.0

63.3 ± 13.1

60.3 ± 14.1

 < 0.001

 SVA, mm

1.7 ± 24.5

11.2 ± 30.0

8.4 ± 28.6

2.6 ± 28.5

0.336

PI − LL

  ≤ 10°

28(82.4%)

52(70.3%)

80(76.9%)

20(90.9%)

0.184

  > 10°

6(17.6%)

22(29.7%)

24(23.1%)

2(9.1%)

  1. 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
  2. Values are presented as number (%) or mean ± standard deviation unless otherwise indicated