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Peter O. Newton is affiliated with Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego in the United States. The focus of their research lies predominantly in medicine, with a strong emphasis on surgery within subfields such as pathology and forensic medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The primary topics of Peter O. Newton's work cover scoliosis diagnosis and treatment, spinal fractures and fixation techniques, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, pelvic and acetabular injuries, hip disorders and treatments, intraoperative neuromonitoring and anesthetic effects, as well as cerebral palsy and movement disorders.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Anterior Spinal Growth Modulation in Skeletally Immature Patients with Idiopathic Scoliosis, 2020, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
  • Spinal growth tethering: indications and limits, 2020, Annals of Translational Medicine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Peter O. Newton include Burt Yaszay, Suken A. Shah, Amer F. Samdani, Firoz Miyanji, and Paul D. Sponseller.

Peter O. Newton has contributed extensively to publications within several venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Spine Deformity
  • Spine
  • Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
  • Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
  • Global Spine Journal

Best Publications

  • Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

    Jack C Cheng;René M Castelein;Winnie C Chu;Aina J Danielsson;Aina J Danielsson

  • The biomechanical and morphological changes in the medial collateral ligament of the rabbit after immobilization and remobilization.

    S. L.-Y. Woo;M. A. Gomez;T. J. Sites;P. O. Newton

  • Titanium elastic nailing of fractures of the femur in children. Predictors of complications and poor outcome.

    L. A. Moroz;F. Launay;M. S. Kocher;P. O. Newton

  • Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: etiology, anatomy, natural history, and bracing.

    Stefan Parent;Peter O Newton;Dennis R Wenger

  • Evaluation of proximal junctional kyphosis in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis following pedicle screw, hook, or hybrid instrumentation.

    Melvin D. Helgeson;Suken A. Shah;Peter O. Newton;David H. Clements

  • Displaced pediatric supracondylar humerus fractures: biomechanical analysis of percutaneous pinning techniques.

    Steven S Lee;Andrew T Mahar;Doug Miesen;Peter O Newton

  • Evaluation of a functional position for lateral radiograph acquisition in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

    Frances D. Faro;Michelle C. Marks;Jeffrey Pawelek;Peter O. Newton

  • Complications after 147 consecutive vertebral column resections for severe pediatric spinal deformity: A multicenter analysis

    Lawrence G. Lenke;Peter O. Newton;Daniel J. Sucato;Harry L. Shufflebarger

  • Results of preoperative pulmonary function testing of adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis. A study of six hundred and thirty-one patients.

    Peter O. Newton;Frances D. Faro;Sohrab Gollogly;Randal R. Betz

  • Curve prevalence of a new classification of operative adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Does classification correlate with treatment?

    Lawrence G Lenke;Randal R Betz;David Clements;Andrew Merola

  • Anterior release and fusion in pediatric spinal deformity. A comparison of early outcome and cost of thoracoscopic and open thoracotomy approaches.

    Peter Newton;Dennis Wenger;Scott Mubarak;R. Meyer

  • Building consensus: development of a Best Practice Guideline (BPG) for surgical site infection (SSI) prevention in high-risk pediatric spine surgery.

    Michael G. Vitale;Matthew D. Riedel;Michael P. Glotzbecker;Hiroko Matsumoto

  • A multicenter study of the outcomes of the surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis using the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) outcome instrument.

    Andrew A. Merola;Thomas R. Haher;Mario Brkaric;Georgia Panagopoulos

  • The Spinal Appearance Questionnaire: results of reliability, validity, and responsiveness testing in patients with idiopathic scoliosis.

    James O. Sanders;John J. Harrast;Timothy R. Kuklo;David W. Polly

  • Anchoring systems and methods for correcting spinal deformities

    Michael A. Slivka;Hassan A. Serhan;Peter Newton

  • Comparison of 3-dimensional spinal reconstruction accuracy: biplanar radiographs with EOS versus computed tomography.

    Diana A. Glaser;Josh Doan;Peter O. Newton

  • Operative management of Scheuermann's kyphosis in 78 patients: radiographic outcomes, complications, and technique.

    Baron S Lonner;Peter Newton;Randy Betz;Carrie Scharf

  • Defining the pediatric spinal thoracoscopy learning curve: sixty-five consecutive cases.

    Peter O. Newton;Kevin G. Shea;Kirk F. Granlund

  • Evaluation of a new injury model to study medial collateral ligament healing: primary repair versus nonoperative treatment.

    Jeffrey A. Weiss;Savio L‐Y. Woo;Karen J. Ohland;Shuji Horibe

  • Use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery to reduce perioperative morbidity in scoliosis surgery

    Peter O. Newton;Michelle Marks;Frances Faro;Randy Betz

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Sponseller
Paul D. Sponseller Johns Hopkins University
Lawrence G. Lenke
Lawrence G. Lenke Columbia University
Hubert Labelle
Hubert Labelle University of Montreal
Oheneba Boachie-Adjei
Oheneba Boachie-Adjei Weill Cornell Medicine
Savio L. C. Woo
Savio L. C. Woo Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Keith H. Bridwell
Keith H. Bridwell Washington University in St. Louis
John S. Bradley
John S. Bradley University of California, San Diego
Steven R. Garfin
Steven R. Garfin University of California, San Diego
Stuart L. Weinstein
Stuart L. Weinstein University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Lisa Saiman
Lisa Saiman Columbia University

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