42-year-old female with adult idiopathic scoliosis.
Patient has a large lumbar curve with multiple levels of advanced degeneration.
She had a lot of pain in the lumbar spine that was not responsive to non-operative treatment.
Because of her kyphotic lumbar spine, an anterior release and a posterior fusion with instrumentation was performed on the same day to get the correction in the sagittal plane, as well as, the coronal plane.