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A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve..
The major curve is in the thoracic region, with an equal countercurve in the lumbar region.
A third option of creating a postoperative scoliosis, or rather a postoperative decompensation of a curve, has been observed in patients who had a correction of an idiopathic thoracic scoliosis in their adolescence and the nontreated lumbar compensatory counter-curve or the countercurve in a double curve progressed to a scoliosis on the base of a progressive segmental degeneration.
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Countercurve means A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve..
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The major curve is in the thoracic region, with an equal countercurve in the lumbar region.
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