The incidence of idiopathic scoliosis in Greece

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 91, Issue , 2002, Pages 71-75

  Grivas, Theodoros B ^a   Koukos, Konstantinos ^a   Koukou, Urania I ^a   Maziotou, Christina ^a   Polyzois, Basilios D ^a  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENTS; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS; RADIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; SCREENING PROGRAMS; SURGICAL TREATMENT;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SCOLIOSIS; STATISTICS; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCOLIOSIS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 16544387603     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-935-6-71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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