• Eur Spine J · Oct 2024

    Evaluation of the effectiveness of the femoro-sacral posterior angle system for measuring spino-pelvic morphology in high-dysplastic developmental spondylolisthesis.

    • Defu Meng, Dong Li, Xinhu Guo, and Weishi Li.
    • Department of Orthopaedics, Peking University Third Hospital, No.49 Huayuan Bei Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100191, China.
    • Eur Spine J. 2024 Oct 1; 33 (10): 372437363724-3736.

    ObjectiveThe Femoro-Sacral Posterior Angle (FSPA) system and the pelvic incidence (PI) system are utilized for measuring sagittal spino-pelvic morphology in patients with high-dysplastic developmental spondylolisthesis (HDDS). This study aimed to analyze the accuracy and stability of these two systems.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted on 45 patients diagnosed with HDDS who underwent surgical treatment at our hospital (HDDS group), along with 45 patients without spondylolisthesis (normal group). Three orthopedic surgeons utilized the FSPA and PI systems to measure various parameters, including FSPA, pelvic angle(PA), sacral incidence (SI), PI, pelvic tilt (PT), and sacral slope (SS), respectively. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was employed to assess the inter-observer consistency of measurements.ResultsThere was significant differences in all the parameters between the normal and HDDS groups (p < 0.05), except for SS (p = 0.508). Specifically, SI was lower in HDDS group than in the normal group (23.0 ± 13.4 vs. 38.6 ± 7.1), whereas SS was higher (35.3 ± 15.7 vs. 33.6 ± 7.4). Within HDDS group, there was no statistically significant difference in PI (p = 0.159), SS (p = 0.319), and FSPA (p = 0.173) between pre- and post-surgery measurements. The ICC results indicated superior reliability for the FSPA system (0.842-0.885) compared to the PI system (0.682-0.720) within the HDDS group.ConclusionCompared with the PI system, the FSPA system demonstrated higher accuracy in evaluating spino-pelvic morphology in HDDS patients. Moreover, it exhibited higher ICC values, indicating higher inter-observer reliability, thus serving as an effective method for assessing spino-pelvic morphology in HDDS patients.© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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