School screening and point prevalence of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in 4000 Norwegian children aged 12 years

Scoliosis

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Adobor, Raphael D ^a   Rimeslatten, Silje ^b   Steen, Harald ^a   Brox, Jens I ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet ^*  (Norway)

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EID: 80054823395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7161-6-23     Document Type: Article

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