From the *Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, the †Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hôpital St. Vincent de Paul, Paris, France, the ‡Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, and the §Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Scoliosis Research Society September 13-17, 1995, Asheville, NC.
Acknowledgment date: August 23, 1995.
First revision date: November 2, 1995.
Acceptance date: November 16, 1995.
Device status category: 1.
Address reprint requests to: Masafumi Machida, MD; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Nihon University School of Medicine; 30-1 Oyaguchi-kamimachi, Itabashi-ku; Tokyo, Japan
