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Most cases of scoliosis are idiopathic. Idiopathic scoliosis typically present in adolescent females as a painless thoracolumbar curve to the right. Congenital scoliosis accounts for about 10% of all scoliosis cases. Associations include tethered cord, thickened filum, lipoma, diastematomyelia and spina bifida.
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