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Spine surgeons love a good number. Cobb angle. PI–LL mismatch. But what if one of the most important numbers before adult deformity surgery isn’t on the radiograph…it’s on the lunch tray?

That’s the premise behind a recent study using the massive American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database to ask a simple but slightly uncomfortable question:


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