Scheuermann’s Kyphosis Adult Male

Case Information

31 year old male diagnosed with Scheuermann’s Kyphosis as a teenager with chronic back pain, on a significant amount of narcotic pain medicine.
MRI of the spine was normal.
A posterior spinal fusion was performed from T3-L2 with the patients bone, bone from a tissue bank, and bone morphogenetic protein.
Multiple Smith-Petersen osteotomies (SPO) allowed for correction of the deformity.
Post-operative x-rays show decreased thoracic kyphosis and clinical photos demonstrate decreased prominence of the upper back and an increase in height and improved sagittal posture.