Scoliosis in the elderly.

Abstract

1. The incidence of scoliosis in persons over fifty years of age is 6 per cent.2. In patients over fifty years, with osteoporosis or osteomalacia, the incidence is six times greater (osteoporosis 36 per cent; osteomalacia 38 per cent).3. Scoliosis is believed to arise in the elderly. Its etiology ap