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Even though traditional growing rod (TGR) patients score lower in exercise tolerance and spirometry compared to age-matched controls, their pulmonary functions are similar to those of instrumented adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients.
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Author disclosures: Ebru Celebioglu: none. Alper Yataganbaba: none. Oncel Asli: none. Ceren Degirmenci: none. Þÿ Osmail Aykut Kocyigit: none. Fatih Tekin, H. Gokhan Demirkiran: none. Elmas Ebru Yalcin: none. Ahmet Ugur Demir: none. Muharrem Yazici: none.
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Celebioglu, E., Yataganbaba, A., Asli, O. et al. Paper #3: Can TGR change the natural history of pulmonary functions in EOS? Is Radiological Straightness Correlated with Normal Lung Development?. Spine Deform 5, 441 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspd.2017.09.006
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspd.2017.09.006