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GURUGRAM: City-based doctors gave a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, suffering from an acute 105º curvature in her spine, a breath of new life. Due to the complexity and long duration of the surgery, doctors decided to carry it out in two phases, five days apart. They put 23 screws in the bone around her spine during the 16-hour surgery to correct the curvature using two rods, after releasing the bones at multiple points. “Stage 1 involved loosening of contracted structures, while Stage 2 was the major corrective surgery. Surgery may require accessing the spine from inside the thoracic cavity by deflating the lungs and bringing down the diaphragm, to get inside the abdomen, followed by the Stage 2 surgery from the back,” he added..