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Article History

Received: 8 July 2020

Accepted: 18 January 2021

First Online: 24 February 2021

Compliance with ethical standards

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: LGL reports being a consultant for Medtronic (money donated to charity); receiving royalties from Medtronic and Quality Medical Publishing; receiving reimbursement for airfare and hotels from Broadwater, the Seattle Science Foundation, Stryker Spine, the Spinal Research Foundation, AOSpine, and the Scoliosis Research Society; receiving grant support from the Scoliosis Research Society (money to his institution), EOS Imaging (money to his institution), the Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation (money to his institution); and receiving grant and fellowship support from AOSpine (money to his institution). Authors ASH/AT/JM/NL/MC report no conflict of interest concerning the materials or methods used in this study or the findings specified in this paper.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.