The straight line graph in limb length inequality. A new design based on 182 Dutch children

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 355-360

  Beumer, Annechien ^a   Lampe, Harald I H ^a   Swierstra, Bart A ^a,c   Diepstraten, Ad F M ^a   Mulder, Paul G H ^b  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; FEMUR; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIBIA;

EID: 0030776864     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453679708996177     Document Type: Article

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