alignment in patients requiring revision surgery for proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK).
Methods Fifty patients (67.8 yo, 76% female) with existing thoraco-lumbar fusion (T10/12 to
pelvis) and indicated for surgical correction for PJK were included. To investigate patterns of
radiographic alignment prior to PJK revision, unsupervised 2-step cluster analysis was run
on parameters describing the fused lumbar spine (PI-LL) to identify natural independent …