Clinical Value of Routine Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Abstract

The fact that magnetic resonance imaging did not detect any important pathology in the large number of patients in this study strongly suggests that magnetic resonance imaging is not indicated prior to arthrodesis of the spine in patients with an adolescent idiopathic scoliosis curve pattern and a normal physical and neurologic examination.