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Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging in assessing lung function in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a pilot study of comparison before and after posterior spinal fusion

BACKGROUND: Restrictive impairment is the commonest reported pulmonary deficit in AIS, which improves following surgical operation. However, exact mechanism of how improvement is brought about is unknown. Dynamic fast breath-hold (BH)-MR imaging is a recent advance which provides direct quantitative...

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Autores principales: Chu, Winnie CW, Ng, Bobby KW, Li, Albert M, Lam, Tsz-ping, Lam, Wynnie WM, Cheng, Jack CY
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2203977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18021435
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-2-20