What is the Optimal Treatment for Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis?

Evidence-Based Orthopaedics: The Best Answers to Clinical Questions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 224-235

  Loder, Randall T ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

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EID: 84865493119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-141604444-4.50035-7     Document Type: Chapter

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