Word: scolio
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Scolio Club. Each year the Hospital for Special Surgery handles 30 to 40 scoliosis cases-about half of them of unknown cause, most of the others resulting from paralytic polio. The polio cases tend to be more severe because other parts of the body are also weakened; usually a greater part of the spine has to be fused, often in a series of operations. But post-polio cases are already becoming markedly less common, thanks largely to the success of the Salk vaccine...
...while wearing the cast for only six months. Dr. Risser also favors operating in some cases that other orthopedists would leave alone. For Margie Bilotti, now 13½ and intent on an acting career, there was never any doubt about the operation's necessity. Like most of the "scolio club," she has played the part of a turtle smilingly and without complaint...
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