Abstract
It is growth that distinguishes pediatric from adult orthopaedics. It is this ongoing 17-year adventure, punctuated by upheavals that gives this discipline its originality and makes it so interesting. Growth analysis is the evaluation of the effects of time on the growing child. Growth is a complex and well-synchronized phenomenon with a hierarchical pattern that organizes the different types and rates of growth in various tissues, organs, and individuals through time [6, 20, 26].
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Dimeglio, A., Bonnel, F., Canavese, F. (2011). Normal Growth of the Spine and Thorax. In: Akbarnia, B.A., Yazici, M., Thompson, G.H. (eds) The Growing Spine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85207-0_2
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