Menarche in scoliotic and nonscoliotic mediterranean girls. Is there any relation between menarche and laterality of scoliotic curves?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 88, Issue , 2002, Pages 30-36

  Grivas, Theodoros B ^a   Samelis, Panagiotis ^a   Pappa, Anastasia S ^a   Stavlas, Panagiotis ^a   Polyzois, Dimitrios ^a  

^a THRIASIO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBB ANGLES; FAIL CRITERIA; HORMONAL TREATMENTS; MEAN AGES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TRUNK INCLINATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MENARCHE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCOLIOSIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MENARCHE; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE;

EID: 6044270487     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-932-5-30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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