Prevalence of scoliosis in women with visual deficiency

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 123, Issue , 2006, Pages 52-56

  Grivas, Theodoros B ^a   Savvidou, Olga D ^a   Vasiliadis, Elias ^a   Psarakis, Spyros ^a   Koufopoulos, George ^a  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

blindness; idiopathic scoliosis; melatonin; menarche; prevalence of IS

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS; GENERAL POPULATION; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MELATONIN; MENARCHE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

HORMONES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCOLIOSIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MIDDLE AGED; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 34248372192     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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