"type I (typical): thoracic spine only"
"It is named after the Danish orthopaedic surgeon and radiologist Holger Werfel Scheuermann (1877-1960) who first described it in 1920 as osteochondritis deformans juvenilis dorsi 10,12."
"A Danish orthopaedic surgeon, Kaj Harry Sørensen, developed his eponymous criteria, based on the painstaking measurement of the wedging of 4,665 vertebrae 14!"
"Schmorl nodes"
"To apply the label of classical Scheuermann disease, the Sorensen criteria need to be met 9:"
Expected headings
"Associations"
"There is a strong hereditary predisposition (perhaps autosomal dominant) with a high degree of penetrance and variable expressivity."
"thoracic spine kyphosis >40° (normal 25-40°); or"