1.   Sofamor Danek tried to convince a skeptical government panel that its spinal fusion cage is a safe addition to the tools surgeons can use in corrective spinal operations.

2.   Sofamor Danek tried to convince an expert government panel that its spinal fusion cage is a safe addition to the tools surgeons can use in corrective spinal operations.

3.   But Yin Chian still needs a second corrective operation to repair the narrowing of the arteries to the lungs, valve obstruction and overriding of blood vessels.

4.   Doctors at the Sultanah Aminah hospital where the boy was born set his twisted feet in a cast and performed a corrective operation when he was seven months old.