Study of the rib cage deformity in children with 10°-20° of Cobb angle Late Onset Idiopathic Scoliosis, using Rib-Vertebra Angles

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 91, Issue , 2002, Pages 20-24

  Grivas, Theodoros B ^a   Samelis, Panagiotis ^a   Chadziargiropoulos, Theodoros ^a   Polyzois, Basilios ^a  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; COBB ANGLES; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; L-CURVE; MEAN AGES; MUSCLE FORCE; RIB CAGES; T CURVES;

MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; RIB; SCOLIOSIS; VERTEBRA; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; REFERENCE VALUES; RIBS; SCOLIOSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 16544367384     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-935-6-20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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