Scoliosis: Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 443, Issue , 2006, Pages 248-259

  Lonstein, John E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b TWIN CITIES SPINE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRACE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HARRINGTON INSTRUMENTATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AGE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 33645282298     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000198725.54891.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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