Incidence of congenital clubfoot in Sweden

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 847-852

  Wallander, Henrik ^a   Hovelius, Lennart ^a   Michaelsson, Karl ^b  

^a GÄVLE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUBFOOT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SWEDEN; CLINICAL TRIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN;

CLUBFOOT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 33846915420     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17453670610013123     Document Type: Article

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