TY - JOUR AU - Zhang, Zhen AU - Liu, Zhen AU - Zhu, Zezhang AU - Qiu, Yong PY - 2017 DA - 2017/03/16 TI - Spinal epidural lipomatosis – an easily ignored secondary intraspinal disorder in spinal kyphotic deformities JO - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders SP - 112 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - A previous study reported a high prevalence of spinal epidural lipomatosis (SEL) in patients with Scheuermann kyphosis (SK) and suggested that it may play a role in the pathogenesis of this disease. According to our observation, however, SEL occurs in other spinal kyphotic deformities as well. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that SEL commonly occurs in patients with different types of kyphotic deformities as a secondary intraspinal disorder. SN - 1471-2474 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1467-7 DO - 10.1186/s12891-017-1467-7 ID - Zhang2017 ER -