Recent Clinical Research in Pediatric Spinal Surgery

Dear Colleagues,

Pediatric spine surgery is a very specific field of interest, yet a pediatric spine surgeon deals with a vast field of pathologies: from spinal deformities to metabolic conditions, tumors and trauma.

The particularity of this specialty is to treat a complex organ in a growing patient. The results of surgery are not limited to the immediate post-operative situation but affect the development of the spine and the patient's life for years to come. Choosing the most appropriate surgical solution is always difficult because it is conditioned by numerous variables. The risk of surgical complications is also high, and these can arise at any time during or after surgery.

Recent years have seen a continuous expansion of our knowledge and our ability to intervene: the development of new techniques and new tools are enormously expanding our horizons.

In particular, non-fusion techniques are joining traditional interventions and opening up exciting possibilities for the future.

However, doubts and unresolved problems remain in choosing the most appropriate surgical strategies. Our guide must be clinical research, which can suggest new fields of application and help us reduce the incidence of complications and maximize the results of surgery. The articles in this Special Issue intend to present the most recent developments in clinical research in pediatric spine surgery applied to the various problems that surgeons face in daily practice.

Dr. Osvaldo Mazza
Dr. Marco Crostelli
Guest Editors

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• pediatrics
• spinal deformities
• tumors
• trauma
• spine surgery
• surgical complications