Patterns of extra-spinal left-right skeletal asymmetries in adolescent girls with lower spine scoliosis: Relative lengthening of the ilium on the curve concavity & of right lower limb segments

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 123, Issue , 2006, Pages 57-65

  Burwell, R G ^a   Aujla, R K ^a   Freeman, B J C ^a   Dangerfield, P H ^b   Cole, A A ^a   Kirby, A S ^a   Pratt, R K ^a   Webb, J K ^a   Moulton, A ^c  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S MILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bilateral symmetry; etiology; legs; pelvis; Scoliosis

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL SYMMETRY; ETIOLOGY; LEGS; PELVIS; SCOLIOSIS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACK; CHILD; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCOLIOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ILIUM; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; PELVIS; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 34248395284     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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