Effects of Multilevel Facetectomy and Screw Density on Postoperative Changes in Spinal Rod Contour in Thoracic Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Surgery

• Terufumi Kokabu,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Hideki Sudo ,

  * E-mail: hidekisudo@yahoo.co.jp

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Yuichiro Abe,

  Affiliation Eniwa Hospital, Eniwa, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Manabu Ito,

  Affiliation Department of Spine and Spinal Cord Disorders, Hokkaido Medical Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Yoichi M. Ito,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Norimasa Iwasaki

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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