Most patients with scoliosis (curved spine) developing after age ten don't need routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning before spine-straightening surgery, suggests a study in the April 14 issue of Spine. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. In young scoliosis patients without symptoms of neurological abnormalities, preoperative MRI scanning adds costs while detecting few abnormalities and adding little information for surgical planning, according to research led by Dr. Mohammad Diab of University of California San Francisco... 
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