How much correction is enough?

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 2641-2643

  Winter, Robert B ^a   Lonstein, John E ^a   Denis, Francis ^a  

^a TWIN CITIES SPINE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; BONE NAILS; BONE SCREWS; CASTS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 36248954364     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31815a5207     Document Type: Editorial

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