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a Sixteen-year-old wheelchair-bound boy with neuromuscular scoliosis (myelomeningocele) 4 years after unilateral VEPTR implantation: new bone formation at the ileum anchor point (type Ic) and along the titanium rib at the thoracic level (IIa) and the lumbar rod section (IIb). b Seven years after the index procedure there is an almost continuous bone mass along the implant, reaching from the rib cradle to the ala hook
