Growing-Rod Graduates: Lessons Learned from Ninety-nine Patients Who Completed Lengthening

Growing-rod spinal instrumentation systems are a valuable tool for managing severe early-onset scoliosis. There is little information about the end point of treatment.A multicenter early-onset-scoliosis database was searched to identify patients who had undergone treatment with growing rods and either had had a final operative procedure or were still being treated with the growing rods after reaching skeletal maturity (defined as fourteen years...