Lalande, Viviane
Villemure, Isabelle
Vonthron, Manuel
Parent, Stefan
Aubin, Carl-Éric
Article History
Received: 13 December 2018
Accepted: 22 August 2019
First Online: 24 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: VL (Grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [NSERC], during the conduct of the study), IV (Grants from NSERC, during the conduct of the study; in addition, IV has a patent “CE Aubin, S Parent, I Villemure, S Amini, M Driscoll, F Moldovan, Dynamic Fusionless Device for the Correction of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis [WO2014127464 A1, Aug 28, 2014]” issued), MV (none), SP (Grants from NSERC, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from EOS-imaging, Spinologics, K2M, Medtronic, and DePuy Synthes Spine; other from Academic Research Chair in Spine Deformities of the CHU Sainte-Justine (DePuy); Grants from DePuy Synthes Spine, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, and Scoliosis Research Society; grants from Medtronic, EOS imaging, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation, NSERC, Fonds de recherche Québec–Santé, and Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation; other from DePuy Synthes and Medtronic, outside the submitted work; in addition, SP has a patent “CE Aubin, S Parent, I Villemure, S Amini, M Driscoll, F Moldovan, Dynamic Fusionless Device for the Correction of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis [WO2014127464 A1, Aug 28, 2014]” issued), CÉA (Grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counsil of Canada (NSERC), during the conduct of the study; grants from Medtronic, outside the submitted work; in addition, CÉA has a patent “CE Aubin, S Parent, I Villemure, S Amini, M Driscoll, F Moldovan, Dynamic Fusionless Device for the Correction of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis [WO2014127464 A1, Aug 28, 2014]” issued).
: Approved by the “comité d’éthique de l’expérimentation animale” (CÉEA) from the Centre de recherche de l’hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal (no. PARS01).