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More options in scoliosis patients with the Dual Innie Favored Angle Reduction Tab Screw (DI FAR screw)

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Problem: Scolioses are complex three-dimensional deformities of the spine. Therefore, surgical correction of the deformity comprises several individual steps.

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  • Direct vertebral rotation: a new technique of three-dimensional deformity correction with segmental pedicle screw fixation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis Lee SM, Suk SI, Chung ER; Spine. 2004

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    Florian Geiger

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Dr. Florian Geiger, M.D. is Consultant of the Department for Spinal Surgery in the Orthopedic Clinic at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. After Studying in Homburg and Vienna with rotations in Bozen, Italy, and New Orleans, LA, he started to work at the Balgrist Orthopedic University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Dr. Geiger then began his residency at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg in the department for Rheumatology. After residencies in surgery and traumatology at the University of Mainz, he returned to Heidelberg where he eventually served as Consultant in the Department for Spinal Surgery and Pediatric Orthopedics, prior to moving to Frankfurt in 2006, where he now is responsible for the treatment of the paediatric spine and scoliosis.

He has participated extensively in orthopaedic and pain research, co-publishing an extensive array of studies and papers in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, European Spine Journal, International Orthopedics, the Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, among many other publications.

Additionally, he was a representative of the German Orthopedic Society for the “National Guidelines for the Treatment of Postoperative Pain.”

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Geiger, F. More options in scoliosis patients with the Dual Innie Favored Angle Reduction Tab Screw (DI FAR screw). ArgoSpine News J 21, 102–105 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12240-009-0020-4

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