Sex-based differences in clinical and radiological presentation of patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis: a cross-sectional study

Table 2 Comparison of coronal spinal parameters in patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis of different genders

		Male	Female	Statistics	p-Value
Scoliosis orientation (cases)
	Left	21	100
	Right	20	58	1.99	0.158
Type of coronal imbalance (cases)
	A	33	111
	B	6	23
	C	2	24	3.121	0.21
Upper end vertebrae (cases)
	T11	1	3
	T12	6	23
	L1	17	97
	L2	17	35	6.950	0.074
Lower end vertebrae (cases)
	L3	2	26
	L4	39	132	3.609	0.057
Number of vertebrae included in the scoliosis (cases)
	3	17	54
	4	17	85
	5	7	19	2.085	0.352
Rotation of apex vertebrae (cases)
	1	18	30
	2	8	42
	3	9	53
	4	6	33	11.225	0.011*
Cobb’s angle		24.8 ± 9.8	30.1 ± 10.1	−3.012	0.003*
Coronal balance distance		17.7 ± 15.6	20.4 ± 14.3	−1.405	0.297
Apex vertebrae		2.5 ± 0.78	2.5 ± 0.70	−0.553	0.582
Apical vertebral translation		1.9 ± 1.0	2.2 ± 0.9	−1.759	0.080

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