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Radiography of the lumbal spine demonstrating osteosynthetic material until the border of L3.
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A 30-year-old parturient was born with congenital scoliosis, necessitating repeat surgical procedures in childhood and vertebral fusion osteosynthesis, extending up to the vertebral body of L4 (Figure 1) at the age of 12.