Figure 8.

(a) X-ray and clinical photograph of a 6-year-old male patient with congenital early onset scoliosis (EOS). (b) X-ray after growth-friendly surgery with a hybrid construct including a magnetically controlled growing rod (MAGEC®) on the concave side in combination with apical fusion and a passively sliding construct on the convex side. (c) Posteroanterior and lateral x-ray after conversion to final instrumented spinal fusion. Due to spontaneous bony fusion between the proximal and distal foundation no additional anchors were used (apart from the initial convex-sided apical fusion screws).