Treatment of scoliosis in intermediate spinal muscular atrophy (SMA type II) in childhood

Ortopedia Traumatologia Rehabilitacja

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-179

  Fujak, Albert ^a,b   Ingenhorst, Anne ^a   Heuser, Katja ^a   Forst, Raimund ^a   Forst, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Spinal muscular atrophy; Spinal surgery; Telescope rod

Indexed keywords

CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NOTE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 38549129749     PISSN: 15093492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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