Yaszay, Burt http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-2284
Jankowski, Pawel P.
Bastrom, Tracey P.
Lonner, Baron
Betz, Randal
Shah, Suken
Asghar, Jahangir
Miyanji, Firoz
Samdani, Amer
Newton, Peter O.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation
Article History
Received: 10 April 2018
Revised: 17 January 2019
Accepted: 12 February 2019
First Online: 23 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors report grants to their institutions from the Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation during the conduct of this study. The following conflicts of interest exist outside of the submitted work: Dr. Yaszay received grants and personal fees from K2M, grants and personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, personal fees from Nuvasive, personal fees from Medtronic, personal fees from Orthopediatrics, personal fees from Stryker, personal fees from Globus, grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, and has a patent with K2M with royalties paid. Dr. Lonner reports received grants from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, personal fees from K2M, personal fees from Paradigm Spine, personal fees from Spine Search, personal fees from Ethicon, non-financial support from Spine Deformity Journal, grants from John and Marcella Fox Fund Grant, grants from OREF, personal fees from Zimmer Biomet, and personal fees from Apifix. Dr. Betz received personal fees and other from Abyrx, other from Advanced Vertebral Solutions, personal fees and other from ApiFix, personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, other from Electrocore, personal fees from Globus Medical, other from Medovex, personal fees from Medtronic, other from MiMedx, other from Orthobond, personal fees and other from SpineGuard, other from SpineMedica, personal fees from Thieme Medical Publishers, personal fees from Zimmer Biomet, and has an immediate family member who is an employee of DePuy Synthes Spine. Dr. Shah received personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine and K2M. Dr. Asghar received personal fees and non-financial support from Omega innovative Technologies, and personal fees from Life Spine and Globus Medical. Dr. Samdani received personal fees from DePuy Synthes Spine, personal fees from Ethicon, personal fees from Globus Medical, personal fees from Misonix, personal fees from Stryker, personal fees from Zimmer Biomet, other from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, other from Scoliosis Research Society, and other from Children's Spine Study Group. Dr. Newton received grants and other from Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, other from Rady Children's Specialists, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from DePuy Synthes Spine, grants and other from SRS, grants from EOS imaging, personal fees from Thieme Publishing, grants from NuVasive, other from Electrocore, personal fees from Cubist, other from International Pediatric Orthopedic Think Tank, grants, non-financial support and other from Orthopediatrics, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from K2M, grants and non-financial support from Alphatech, and has the following patents: Anchoring systems and methods for correcting spinal deformities (8540754) with royalties paid to DePuy Synthes Spine, a patent Low profile spinal tethering systems (8123749) licensed to DePuy Spine, Inc., a patent Screw placement guide (7981117) licensed to DePuy Spine, Inc., a patent Compressor for use in minimally invasive surgery (7189244) licensed to DePuy Spine, Inc., and a patent Posterior spinal fixation pending to K2M.