Why do we treat adolescent idiopathic scoliosis? What we want to obtain and to avoid for our patients. SOSORT 2005 Consensus paper

Scoliosis

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Negrini, Stefano ^a   Grivas, Theodoros B ^b   Kotwicki, Tomasz ^c   Maruyama, Toru ^d   Rigo, Manuel ^e   Weiss, Hans ^f  

^a ISICO ITALIAN SCIENTIFIC SPINE INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e Institut Elena Salvá   (Spain)

^f Asklepios Katharina Schroth Spinal Deformities Rehabilitation Centre   (Germany)

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EID: 33750471747     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7161-1-4     Document Type: Article

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