Ten percent of the 300 pediatric patients were under the age of four. There were slight differences between patients older and younger than four years old in the values of sensitivity and specificity of monitoring. There were no false-negative outcomes and nearly equal numbers of true positive alerts for children in both groups.
The proportion of hemivertebrae was greater for patients in the younger group.
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