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. 2006 May 8:1:5.
doi: 10.1186/1748-7161-1-5.

Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines)

SOSORT guideline committee; Hans-Rudolf Weiss #  1 , Stefano Negrini #  2 , Manuel Rigo  3 , Tomasz Kotwicki  4 , Martha C Hawes #  5 , Theodoros B Grivas  6 , Toru Maruyama  7 , Franz Landauer  8
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Indications for conservative management of scoliosis (guidelines)

SOSORT guideline committee et al. Scoliosis. .

Abstract

This guideline has been discussed by the SOSORT guideline committee prior to the SOSORT consensus meeting in Milan, January 2005 and published in its first version on the SOSORT homepage: http://www.sosort.org/meetings.php. After the meeting it again has been discussed by the members of the SOSORT guideline committee to establish the final 2005 version submitted to Scoliosis, the official Journal of the society, in December 2005.

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Figure 1
The estimation of the prognostic risk to be used during pubertal growth spurt (modified from Lonstein and Carlson [33]). The numbers in the figure indicate the number of cases that each data point is based on. Note the small number of cases on which the upper margins of the graph are based. Lonstein and Carlson's progression estimation formula is based on curves between 20 and 29 degrees.
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