Clubfoot: Etiology and treatment

Indian Journal of Orthopaedics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-28

  Anand, Ashish ^a,b   Sala, Debra A ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b Doctors Cooperative Society   (India)

Author keywords

Clubfoot; French technique; Kite technique; Ponseti

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349184780     PISSN: 00195413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.38576     Document Type: Article

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