Flat back deformity with loss of lumbar lordosis

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 25-38

  Kostuik, John P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; OSTEOTOMY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE STABILIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031817646     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001433-199804000-00005     Document Type: Review

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