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4-year-old boy with congenital thoracic scoliosis treated with classic VEPTR-based expansive thoracostomy. The normally segmented lumbar spine was left alone. The patient, therefore, serves as a comparative control case with naturally developing geometry of the vertebral bodies from prior to the index procedure (a) to the follow-up (b). The height/depth ratio and the disc heights remained the same during the 4.5 years of observation
