Metabolic causes of scoliosis
Principally this concerns osteoporosis, which in general causes a kyphosis - a so called dowager's hump. Other metabolic conditions don't normally cause osteoporosis; for example:
- rickets affects only the long bones
- Paget's does not cause gross deformity
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