A case of laparoscopic myomectomy in a patient with severe scoliosis and spinal muscular atrophy.

Objective: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease affecting the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement. Scoliosis in SMA most likely develops because of a lack of muscular support for the spinal column or because of muscular imbalance. We report a case of laparoscopic myomectomy in a patient with severe scoliosis and SMA. To our knowledge, no prior report has discussed the technical difficulties of laparoscopic myomectomy in the presence of SMA with severe scoliosis.