Outcome analysis of surgery for Blount disease

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 730-735

  Jones, Jerome K ^a,d   Gill, Laura ^b   John, Mario ^c   Goddard, Maria ^d   Hambleton, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Caribbean Centre for Orthopaedic Surgery   (Barbados)

Author keywords

Blount disease; Outcome; Tibia vara

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOUNT DISEASE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; METAPHYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

BARBADOS; BONE DISEASES, DEVELOPMENTAL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 70349655889     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e3181b768d9     Document Type: Article

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