Privalence of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in hungary

Abstract

The prevalence of AIS was studied by examining 22,624 microfilms and obtaining additional clinical and radiological information in 201 out of 223 selected cases. In our material the total prevalence of scoliosis was 8.8–9.7 per thousand, whereas the prevalence of AIS was 5.1–5.4. Considering only AIS over 10° the prevalence was 2.91 per thousand.