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Spinal disorders are common in children. They can range from simple and self-limiting muscular sprains to life-altering problems such as deformity, tumours, infection or chronic pain. In this chapter we cover spinal deformity and spinal infection. Back pain and tumours are covered in Chap. 13 “Chronic Pain” and Chap. 6 “Bone tumours”.
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Al-Saadi, H.S., Dakhil-Jerew, F. (2021). Paediatric Spine. In: Alshryda, S., Jackson, L., Thalange, N., AlHammadi, A. (eds) Pediatric Orthopedics for Primary Healthcare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65214-2_17
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