Single bone straight line graphs for the lower extremity

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 342, Issue , 1997, Pages 132-140

  Pritchett, James W ^a,c   Bortel, David T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HAMOT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BONE AGE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE GROWTH; CHILD; EPIPHYSIODESIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; GROWTH PLATE; HUMAN; LEG; LONG BONE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TIBIA;

EID: 0030866489     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199709000-00020     Document Type: Article

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