… To review and define principles and features of treatment for adult degenerative scoliosis,
the most common cause of adult spinal deformities. … A scoliotic deformity in an adult
patient may arise as progression of infantile or adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, as a
compensatory spinal deformity, or through degenerative change without preexisting
scoliosis typically manifested in the lumbar spine. This latter condition is termed de novo
scoliosis or degenerative scoliosis and is the topic of this review. …