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At Seattle Children's, we offer our patients the support of an entire medical center. Complex spine cases usually involve bigger, more severe curves that are more difficult to correct and that affect the spinal cord and lungs. In caring for children with these more difficult cases, we often like to enlist the services of a pediatric pulmonary specialist and a neurosurgeon. Our surgical spinal cord monitoring team leads the country in developing new techniques for making back surgery safer. Recently we have developed advances in spinal cord monitoring and treatment of scoliosis in very young children (infantile scoliosis).