Background: Traditional growing rods have a reported wound and implant complication rate
as high as 58%. It is unclear whether the use of magnetically controlled growing rods (…

Objective. To report 2-year clinical and radiographic results of patients treated with magnetically
controlled growing rods (MCGR). Summary of Background Data. MCGR for early-onset …

OBJECTIVE Sagittal malalignment decreases patients’ quality of life and may require surgical
correction to achieve realignment goals. High-risk posterior-based osteotomy techniques …

Background A surgical site infection is a substantial cause of complications in patients.
Different methods are being used to decrease surgical site infections; however, these infections …

Ultrafast broadband ultraviolet radiation is of importance in spectroscopy and photochemistry,
since high photon energies enable single-photon excitations and ultrashort pulses allow …

Purpose Is there any relationship between lengthening intervals and rod fracture in
traditional growing rod (TGR) surgery? Methods A multicenter EOS database was queried for …

Coherent ultraviolet light has many uses, for example, in the study of molecular species
relevant in biology and chemistry. Very few, if any, laser materials offer ultraviolet transparency …

Background: It is unclear whether traditional growing rod (TGR) treatment outcomes vary by
early-onset scoliosis (EOS) subtype. The goal of this study was to compare radiographic …

Purpose Increasingly, patients with early onset scoliosis (EOS) are completing a growth
friendly surgical program followed by observation, removal of implants or a definitive spinal …

As shown in the early 1960s, the gain in stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) is drastically
suppressed when the rate of creation of phonons (via a pump-to-Stokes conversion) is exactly …