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Table 1 Basic characteristics of included studies

From: Incidence of intraspinal abnormalities in congenital scoliosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

No.

Author

Year

Mean age (year)

CS patients with intraspinal abnormalities/CS patients

Sex

CS types

MINORS

Male

Female

Failure of formation

Failure of segmentation

Mixed abnormalities

1

Belmont

2004

4.9

18/76

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

12

2

Erfani

2007

NR

19/46

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

8

3

Furdock

2019

NR

113/267

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

8

4

Ghandhari

2015

13.5

44/202

16/90

28/112

28/108

10/64

6/30

17

5

Gupta

2016

5.3

56/119

16/44

40/75

21/61

15/23

20/35

8

6

Hou

2018

12.25

54/120

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

13

7

Liu

2011

12.8

132/539

37/214

95/325

71/301

45/168

16/70

8

8

Sevencan

2019

12.6

124/231

43/94

81/137

65/129

41/64

18/38

8

9

Shen

2013

13.9

99/226

33/94

66/132

27/96

29/48

43/82

8

10

Suh

2001

NR

12/37

6/17

6/20

5/19

1/4

6/14

8

  1. No. number, CS congenital scoliosis, MINORS Methodological Index for Non-Randomized Studies, NR not reported