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Table 2 Utilization rate of each correction maneuver for the preferred and minimal implant density techniques

From: Significant variability in surgeons’ preferred correction maneuvers and instrumentation strategies when planning adolescent idiopathic scoliosis surgery

Correction maneuvers

Preferred technique (%)

Minimal technique (%)

p value

Ponte osteotomy

43

39

0.22

Concave rod rotation

74

80

0.13

Vertebral derotation technique

96

82

0.003

 Segmental vertebral derotation

54

39

0.002

 En bloc vertebral derotation

30

33

0.92

 En bloc and segmental simultaneously

7

5

0.68

Compression

59

55

0.45

Distraction

71

67

0.28

In situ rod bending

41

53

0.009

  1. Italic data is statistically significant (p>0.05)