Kyfosis dorsalis juvenilis

Abstract

A little more than a century ago, the Danish orthopedist and radiologist Holger Werfel Scheuermann published an article in a modest Danish magazine containing the results of his observations and studies of everything related to a peculiar deformity of the spine, about which almost nothing was known. This article attracted so much attention that over time it became considered a classic, and the pathological curvature of the spine described by Sheyermann began to bear his name and is now known universally as kyphosis or Sheyermann’s disease. This is probably one of the most cited articles on the treatment of spinal deformities of any etiology. At the same time, it seems that these numerous references to it are formal, since the article is published in Danish, its English translation is hardly accessible to vertebrologists (if it exists at all). In this situation, we considered it appropriate to place in our journal a translation of Sheyermann’s first article on this problem, both in order to present its content to domestic specialists and to pay tribute to an outstanding doctor and researcher.