Boachie-Adjei, Oheneba http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6100-7770
Duah, Henry Ofori http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4842-6006
Yankey, Kwadwo Poku
Lenke, Lawrence G.
Sponseller, Paul D.
Sucato, Daniel J.
Samdani, Amer F.
Newton, Peter O.
Shah, Suken A.
Erickson, Mark A.
Akoto, Harry
Sides, Brenda A.
Gupta, Munish C.
,
Funding for this research was provided by:
Washington University Fox funds
K2M (K2M/FC/060216)
Article History
Received: 8 April 2020
Accepted: 8 September 2020
First Online: 9 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Dr. Boachie-Adjei reports grants, personal fees and other from K2M, personal fees and other from WEIGAO, outside the submitted work. Dr. Lenke reports personal fees and other from Medtronic, personal fees and other from broadwater, personal fees and other from EOS Imaging, personal fees and other from EOS Imaging, personal fees and other from Quality Medical Publishing, personal fees and other from Stryker Spine, outside the submitted work. Dr. Sponseller reports grants, personal fees and other from DePuy Synthes, personal fees and other from JBJS, personal fees and other from Globus Medical, personal fees and other from OrthoPediatrics, outside the submitted work. Dr. Sucato reports personal fees and other from Globus Medical, outside the submitted work. Dr. Samdani reports personal fees and other from DePuy Synthes, personal fees and other from Globus Medical, personal fees and other from NuVasive, personal fees and other from Ethicon, personal fees and other from Stryker Spine, personal fees and other from Zimmer Biomet, outside the submitted work. Dr. Newton reports grants from Alphatec Spine, grants, personal fees and other from DePuy Synthes, personal fees and other from Electrocore, grants from EOS Imaging, grants, personal fees and other from K2M, grants from Mazor Robotics, grants from Medtronic, grants from NuVasive, grants from OrthoPediatrics, grants, personal fees and other from Thieme Publishing, outside the submitted work. Dr. Shah reports grants, personal fees and other from DePuy Synthes, other from K2M, other from Globus Medical, other from NuVasive, outside the submitted work. Dr. Gupta reports grants from AOSpine, personal fees and other from DePuy Synthes, other from Innomed, other from Johnson & Johnson, personal fees and other from Medtronic, grants from OMeGA, personal fees and other from perForm Biologics, other from Proctor & Gamble, outside the submitted work. For the remaining authors none were declared.
: Central Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval was obtained by the main Principal Investigator of the FOX Pediatric Spinal Deformity Study. Additional IRB approvals were obtained from all investigational sites that enrolled patients into the Fox Pediatric Spinal Deformity Study.