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Predicting growth and curve progression in the individual patient with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: design of a prospective longitudinal cohort study

BACKGROUND: Scoliosis is present in 3-5% of the children in the adolescent age group, with a higher incidence in females. Treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is mainly dependent on the progression of the scoliotic curve. There is a close relationship between curve progression and rapid (spi...

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Autores principales: Busscher, Iris, Wapstra, Frits Hein, Veldhuizen, Albert G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2881883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20478013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-11-93