Study design: Case report with review of literature.
Objective: To report 2 cases of adolescent thoracic scoliosis secondary to paraspinal ganglioneuroma.
Summary of background data: There are many types of scoliosis caused by known etiological factors. However, to our knowledge, adolescent thoracic scoliosis caused by paraspinal ganglioneuroma is seldom reported.
Methods: Case report.
Results: The deformity of these 2 patients was well corrected, and the tumor mass of ganglioneuroma was resected intact. Minor loss of correction was recorded in the 2 patients at 6-month and 2.5-year follow-up, respectively. No recurrence of tumor was found.
Conclusion: Combination of scoliosis correction and tumor mass resection was a successful treatment for this kind of clinicopathological entity.