Scoliosis
Scoliosis: Introduction
Scoliosis: A condition which is characterized by lateral curvature of the spine.
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Causes of Scoliosis:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Scoliosis.
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Scoliosis Treatments
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Scoliosis: Comorbid Symptoms
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Causes of Similar Symptoms to Scoliosis
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Misdiagnosis and Scoliosis
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because it may cause only...read more »
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more feared conditions for a child with abdominal...read more »
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with hyperension, arises in relation to the simple equipment used to test blood pressure.
The "cuff" around the arm to measure...read more »
Children with migraine often misdiagnosed: A migraine often fails to be
correctly diagnosed in pediatric patients.
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Scoliosis: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Causes of Scoliosis listed in Disease Database:
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causes of Scoliosis as a symptom include:
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Article Excerpts about Scoliosis
Scoliosis is a musculoskeletal disorder in which there is
a sideways curvature of the spine, or backbone. The bones that make up
the spine are called vertebrae. Some people who have scoliosis require
treatment. Other people, who have milder curves, may only need to visit
their doctor for periodic observation.
(Source: excerpt from Questions and Answers about Scoliosis in Children and Adolescents: NIAMS)
Scoliosis is a musculoskeletal disorder in which there is
a sideways curvature of... (Source: excerpt from Questions and Answers about Scoliosis in Children and Adolescents: NIAMS)
Definitions of Scoliosis:
An appreciable lateral deviation in the normally straight vertical line of the spine. (Dorland, 27th ed)
- (Source - Diseases Database)
An abnormal lateral curve to the vertebral column
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Appreciable lateral deviation in the normally straight vertical line of the spine.
- (Source - CRISP)
Detailed list of causes of Scoliosis
The list below shows some of the causes of Scoliosis mentioned in various sources:
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How Common are these Causes of Scoliosis?
This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases,
not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Scoliosis.
Of the 480
causes of Scoliosis that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 1
causes are "very common" diseases
- 1
causes are "common" diseases
- 2
causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 6
causes are "rare" diseases
- 12
causes are "very rare" diseases
- 463
causes have no prevalence information.
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causes of Scoliosis
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Scoliosis:
The following list of conditions
have 'Scoliosis' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
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- Acrodysostosis
... scoliosis
- Acrodysplasia scoliosis
... scoliosis
- Acrofacial dysostosis, Palagonia type
... scoliosis
- Acromesomelic dysplasia Hunter Thompson type
... scoliosis
- Acromesomelic dysplasia, Maroteaux type
... scoliosis
- Acrorenal mandibular syndrome
... scoliosis
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum -- mental retardation -- coloboma -- micrognathia
... scoliosis
- Aicardi syndrome
... scoliosis
- Akesson syndrome
... scoliosis
- Allain Babin Demarquez syndrome
... scoliosis
- Alves Castelo dos Santos syndrome
... scoliosis
- Amastia, bilateral, with ureteral triplication and dysmorphism
... scoliosis
- Anophthalmia -- megalocornea -- cardiopathy -- skeletal anomalies
... scoliosis
- Anotia -- facial palsy -- cardiac defect
... scoliosis
- Arakawa's syndrome 2
... scoliosis
- AREDYLD
... scoliosis
- Arthritis -- short stature -- deafness
... scoliosis
- Arthrogryposis -- severe scoliosis
... scoliosis
- Arthrogryposis due to muscular dystrophy
... scoliosis
- Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita -- pulmonary hypoplasia
... scoliosis
- Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita type 2B
... scoliosis
- Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, distal, X-linked
... scoliosis
- Arthrogryposis, distal, type 2A
... scoliosis
- Arthrogryposis, distal, type 2B
... scoliosis
- Arthropathy, progressive pseudorheumatoid, of childhood
... scoliosis
- Ashley syndrome
... scoliosis
- Asymmetric short stature syndrome
... scoliosis
- Athabaskan severe combined immunodeficiency
... scoliosis
- Aural atresia -- multiple congenital anomalies -- mental retardation
... scoliosis
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- CAMFAK syndrome
... scoliosis
- Camptodactyly -- fibrous tissue hyperplasia -- skeletal dysplasia
... scoliosis
- Camptodactyly syndrome, Guadalajara type 1
... scoliosis
- Camptodactyly, fibrous tissue hyperplasia, and skeletal dysplasia
... scoliosis
- Camptodactyly, tall stature, and hearing loss syndrome
... scoliosis
- Camurati-Engelmann Disease
... scoliosis
- Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia
... scoliosis
- Cartilage-hair hypoplasia-like syndrome
... scoliosis
- Cat Eye Syndrome
... scoliosis
- Cat's cry
... scoliosis
- Cerebellar ataxia, X-linked
... scoliosis
- Cerebellar atrophy with progressive microcephaly
... scoliosis
- Cerebelloparenchymal autosomal recessive disorder 3
... scoliosis
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, type 4
... scoliosis
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Type 4C
... scoliosis
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Type 4F
... scoliosis
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Type 4H
... scoliosis
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth, demyelinating, autosomal recessive
... scoliosis
- Chitayat-Moore-Del Bigio syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chondrodysplasia punctata, non rhizomelic type
... scoliosis
- Chondrodystrophia calcificans congenita
... scoliosis
- Chondrodystrophia punctata, autosomal dominant
... scoliosis
- Christian-Demyer-Franken syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 1, Terminal deletion
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 1, uniparental disomy 1q12 q21
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 10, trisomy 10pter p13
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 12 ring syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 12p tetrasomy syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 14 uniparental disomy syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 15 Ring
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 15, distal trisomy 15q
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 15q duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 15q tetrasomy syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 15q, partial duplication (distal q arm)
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 15q, tetrasomy
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 15q, trisomy
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 17, deletion 17q23 q24
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 17p, partial deletion
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 17p, partial duplication
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 18, Tetrasomy 18p
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 1p deletion syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 2 trisomy syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 2, monosomy 2q37
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 2, trisomy 2p
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 20, deletion 20p
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 20p deletion syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 21 monosomy
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 22, microdeletion 22q11
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 22q deletion
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 22q deletion syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 22q11 deletion
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 2p duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 3, Monosomy 3p2
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 4 Ring
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 4 ring syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 4, trisomy 4q
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 4q duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 5q deletion syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 6, monosomy 6q
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 6, partial trisomy 6q
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 6, trisomy 6q
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 6q deletion syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 6q duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 7, trisomy 7q
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 7q duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 8 recombinant syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 8, mosaic trisomy
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 8, trisomy 8p
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 8, trisomy 8q
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 8p duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 8p inverted duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 8p mosaic tetrasomy
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 8q duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 9, monosomy 9p
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 9, Partial Monosomy 9p
... Scoliosis
- Chromosome 9, partial trisomy 9p
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 9, trisomy 9p
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 9, trisomy 9q
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 9p deletion syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 9q duplication
... scoliosis
- Chromosome 9q duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosome Xp11.23-p11.22 Duplication syndrome
... scoliosis
- Chromosomes 1 and 2, monosomy 2q duplication 1p
... scoliosis
- Cleft lip -- palate -- abnormal thumbs -- microcephaly
... scoliosis
- Coenzyme Q 10 (CoQ10), deficiency
... scoliosis
- Combarros Calleja Leno syndrome
... scoliosis
- Congenital fiber type disproportion
... scoliosis
- Congenital Gigantism with Skeletal Dysplasia
... scoliosis
- Congenital Lipomatous Overgrowth, Vascular Malformations, Epidermal Nevi, and Skeletal/Spinal abnormalities
... scoliosis
- Congenital SMA with arthrogryposis
... scoliosis
- Conradi-Huenermann Syndrome
... scoliosis
- Cortada Koussef Matsumoto syndrome
... scoliosis
- Cortada-Kousseff-Matsumoto syndrome
... scoliosis
- Coumarin Derivatives -- Teratogenic Agent
... scoliosis
- Craniofrontonasal dysplasia
... scoliosis
- Craniofrontonasal Syndrome
... Scoliosis
- Cri-du-chat syndrome
... scoliosis
- Crisponi syndrome
... scoliosis
- Cutis laxa, recessive type 2
... scoliosis
- Czeizel-Losonci syndrome
... scoliosis
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- Maffucci Syndrome
... scoliosis
- Marden-Walker Syndrome
... scoliosis
- Marfan syndrome
... scoliosis
- Marfan Syndrome type 2
... scoliosis
- Marfan-Like syndrome
... scoliosis
- Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome
... Scoliosis
- Mastocytosis -- short stature -- hearing loss
... scoliosis
- Mastocytosis, cutaneous, with short stature, conductive hearing loss and microtia
... scoliosis
- McKusick type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia
... scoliosis
- Mental retardation -- arachnodactyly -- hypotonia -- telangiectasia
... scoliosis
- Mental retardation -- short stature -- heart and skeletal anomalies
... scoliosis
- Mental retardation -- short stature -- scoliosis
... scoliosis
- Mental retardation -- skeletal dysplasia -- abducens palsy
... scoliosis
- Mental retardation athetosis microphthalmia
... scoliosis
- Mental retardation, Wolff type
... scoliosis
- Mental retardation, X-linked, Reish type
... scoliosis
- Mental retardation, X-linked, Vitale type
... scoliosis
- Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia, recessive type
... scoliosis
- Metatropic dwarfism
... scoliosis
- Michels-Caskey syndrome
... scoliosis
- Micrencephaly corpus callosum agenesis
... scoliosis
- Microbrachycephaly -- ptosis -- cleft lip
... scoliosis
- Microcephaly brachydactyly kyphoscoliosis
... scoliosis
- Microsomia -- hemifacial -- radial defects
... scoliosis
- Minicore disease
... scoliosis
- Minicore myopathy with external ophthalmoplegia
... scoliosis
- Minicore myopathy, moderate, with hand involvement
... scoliosis
- Monosomy 20p
... Scoliosis
- Morquio syndrome
... scoliosis
- Morquio syndrome type A
... scoliosis
- Morquio syndrome, type B
... scoliosis
- MPS-IV (Morquio Disease)
... Scoliosis
- Multicore disease
... scoliosis
- Multiminicore disease (MmD)
... scoliosis
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2b
... scoliosis
- Multiple pterygium syndrome
... scoliosis
- Multiple pterygium syndrome, autosomal recessive
... scoliosis
- Muscular dystrophy, congenital, merosin-positive
... scoliosis
- Muscular dystrophy, Duchenne and Becker type
... scoliosis
- Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle, autosomal recessive, type 2E
... scoliosis
- Myasthenic syndrome, congenital, slow-channel
... scoliosis
- Myopathy congenital multicore with external ophthalmoplegia
... scoliosis
- Myopathy with lactic acidosis and sideroblastic anemia
... scoliosis
- Myopathy, congenital nonprogressive with Moebius and Robin sequences
... scoliosis
- Myopathy, Myofibrillar, BAG3-Related
... scoliosis
- Myopathy, myotubular
... scoliosis
- Myopathy, X-linked with postural muscle atrophy
... scoliosis
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Conditions listing medical complications: Scoliosis:
The following list of medical conditions have
Scoliosis or similar
listed as a medical complication in our database.
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and conditions mentioning this symptom as a complication may also be relevant.
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Causes of Scoliosis Based on Risk Factors
This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Scoliosis based
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Classifications of Scoliosis:
Medical Conditions associated with Scoliosis:
Spine symptoms (821 causes), Back symptoms (1093 causes), Vertebra symptoms (622 causes), Bone symptoms (2907 causes), Skeletal symptoms (4109 causes), Musculoskeletal symptoms (6264 causes), Swelling symptoms (3730 causes)
Symptoms related to Scoliosis:
Spinal symptoms (821 causes), Posture symptoms (96 causes), Spinal curvature, Cerebral palsy, Muscular dystrophy, Myotonic myopathy, Spinal muscular atrophy, Congenital scoliosis, Spinal tumor, Spinal infection (5 causes), Neurofibromatosis, Metabolic bone disorders, Marfan syndrome, Tuberculosis of the spine
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