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Author Affiliations and Disclosures: Hiroko Matsumoto, Columbia University Medical Center, Children’s Spine Foundation, SRS, POSNA; Benjamin Roye, POSNA, OSRF, OMeGA, CPF; Michelle Welborn, Shriner’s Hospital, KRM, Depuy Synthes, POSNA; Joshua Pahys, Shriner’s Hospital, DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company, Globus Medical, DePuy Synthes, NuVasive, Zimmer Biomet; Amy McIntosh, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital; Jeffery Sawyer, Campbell Clinic, AAOS, Campbell Foundation, POSNA, Medicrea, Medicrea Spine, Mosby, Wolters Kluwer Health - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company, Nuvasive; Peter F. Sturm, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, DePuy Spine, Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics, POSNA, SRS, Biomet, Nuvasive, Depuy Synthes, Medtronic, DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company, Ellipse Technologies, Medtronic Sofamor Danek; Laurence Lenke, Columbia University Medical Center, Medtronic, Broadwater, Seattle Science Foundation, SRS, Stryker Spine, The Spinal Research Foundation, EOS, Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, Fox Rothschild, LLC, Quality Medical Publishing, Evans Family Donation, Fox Family Foundation, AOSpine; Megan Campbell, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; Michael Vitale, Columbia University Medical Center, Children’s Spine Foundation, IPOS, POSNA, SSG, Biomet, Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Stryker, Wellinks, CSSG, SRS, OREF, OSRF, DePuy, DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company, FOX, Children’s Spine Foundation, Medtronic, OMEGA, Synthes, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York, SSG; Jaime A. Gomez, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, K2M, Inc; Nicholas Fletcher, Emory University School of Medicine; Harrison Foundation, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Scoliosis Research Society via Setting Scoliosis Straight, Orthopaediatrics, Zimmer/Biomet; Children’s Spine Study Group, DePuy Synthes Spine, Depuy Synthes, DePuy, A Johnson & Johnson Company
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Roye, B., Campbell, M., Matsumoto, H. et al. Consensus-Based Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) for Use of Preoperative Halo Gravity Traction (HGT) for Pediatric Spinal Deformity. Spine Deform 6, 798 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspd.2018.09.017
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