• Am J. Orthop. · Nov 1996

    Case Reports

    Painful adult thoracic Scheuermann's disease. Diagnosis by discography and treatment by combined arthrodesis.

    • R B Winter and K P Schellhas.
    • Minnesota Spine Foundation, Minneapolis and St. Paul, USA.
    • Am J. Orthop. 1996 Nov 1; 25 (11): 783-6.

    AbstractThis is the case report of a 42-year-old woman with chronic thoracic pain, nonradicular and refractory to all nonoperative treatment. Radiographs showed the classic findings of Scheuermann's disease, but without abnormal kyphosis. Magnetic resonance imaging scans showed multilevel thoracic disc degeneration typical of long-term Scheuermann's disease. Thoracic discography revealed concordant pain at T6-7 and T7-8. Treatment consisted of an anterior fusion, T5-11, and posterior fusion of T3 through L1, with Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation. At follow-up, she was pain free and able to work full time and had been able to return to golf, her favorite recreation. Discography of the thoracic spine, as of the lumbar spine, can reveal the true source of pain and thus lead to precise and effective treatment.

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