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. 2012 Mar 23;21(6):1111–1120. doi: 10.1007/s00586-012-2274-3

Table 3.

Correlation between the correction losses and chronological age at surgery, screw types, screw lengths, preoperative and postoperative value, and amount of correction obtained by surgery

Correction loss of rAVR Correction loss of Cobb angle Correction loss of AVT Correction loss of Kyphosis Correction loss of ATR
Chronological age at surgery
 p 0.5148 0.4355 0.4508 0.9913 0.1817
 R −0.128 −0.153 −0.148 −0.002 −0.262
Number of fused vertebrae
 p 0.6903 0.3464 0.6461 0.6512 0.3838
 R 0.078 0.185 0.09 0.089 0.171
Proportion of multi-axial screw (%)
 p 0.0341* 0.0666 0.4592 0.5806 0.0041*
 R 0.415 −0.36 0.145 −0.108 0.563
Proportion of screw length of 30 mm or shorter
 p 0.7823 0.2742 0.5532 0.896 0.0776
 R 0.054 0.214 0.116 −0.026 0.346
Preoperative valuea
 p 0.0023* 0.0069* 0.244 0.0083* 0.0075*
 R 0.597 0.530 −0.228 0.518 0.525
Postoperative valueb
 p 0.0085* 0.2074 0.3365 0.1189 0.0297*
 R 0.516 0.247 −0.188 −0.306 0.426
Amount of correction obtained by surgeryc
 p 0.2992 0.056 0.5568 0.0055* 0.0555
 R 0.204 0.375 −0.115 0.545 0.376

R Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, p p value

* Significant correlation by Spearman’s rank correlation

aPreoperative value of each parameter in the row

bPostoperative value of each parameter in the row

cAmount of correction obtained by surgery of each parameter in the row