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Revision Spine Surgery in the Growing Child

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The Growing Spine

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The need for spinal surgery in pediatric patients is uncommon and estimated at approximately 1–10/100,000 of all children, with surgical indications ranging from intra- or extra-dural neoplasms requiring laminectomies and excision, to spinal deformity requiring correction and stabilization in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis [9,30,44,51].

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    Oheneba Boachie-Adjei & Matthew E Cunningham

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  1. Orthopaedic Surgery, San Diego Medical Director, San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders, University of California, 4130 La Jolla, Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA

    Behrooz A. Akbarnia MD

  2. Orthopaedic Surgery Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Hacettepe University, 06100 Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey

    Muharrem Yazici MD

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    George H. Thompson MD

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Boachie-Adjei, O., Cunningham, M.E. (2011). Revision Spine Surgery in the Growing Child. In: Akbarnia, B.A., Yazici, M., Thompson, G.H. (eds) The Growing Spine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85207-0_38

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