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Spinal Fusion Surgery: These kids are typically very medically complex
John Emans, MD, pediatric orthopedic surgeon, and Jay Berry, MD, General pediatrician, Complex Care Service, Boston Children’s Hospital, discuss the range of issues, physical and neurological, that these children have. Patients considering spinal fusion are typically very medically complex in differing ways: Their particular curves are potentially very different, may curve in different severities, have different effects on each child’s overall functioning.
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Spinal Fusion Surgery: These kids are typically very medically complex
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