Spinal deformity in children is ubiquitous throughout the world, and mortality rates are higher in untreated young patients than in treated adolescents.12 The best possible treatment for early-onset scoliosis is elusive, but the past 15 years have seen tremendous progress in growth-sparing spine surgery in children with severe spinal deformity.2 Many surgical strategies have been developed that control spinal deformity while maintaining spinal growth until the child is close to skeletal maturity.
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