Papers of the Week

A 16-year-old girl with lumbar prominence presented to our outpatient clinic complaining of sporadic back pain without paresthesia. Radiographic investigation revealed a 68° left thoracolumbar curve with the apex at L1. Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging identified a mass at T10-11, subsequently confirmed by pathology as a schwannoma. She was treated surgically with resection and posterior spinal fusion in a single-staged procedure under neuromonitoring guidance. Intraoperative improvement in motor evoked potentials after resection informed the decision to perform simultaneous deformity correction.