Contractures of the upper extremities in spinal muscular atrophy type II. Descriptive clinical study with retrospective data collection

Ortopedia Traumatologia Rehabilitacja

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 410-419

  Fujak, Albert ^a   Kopschina, Carsten ^b   Gras, Florian ^c   Forst, Raimund ^a   Forst, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contracture index; Contracture.; Range of motion.; Spinal muscular atrophy.; Upper extremities.

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; HEREDITARY SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 78751669643     PISSN: 15093492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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