Best Treatment for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: What do current Systematic reviews tell us?

Evidence-Based Orthopaedics: The Best Answers to Clinical Questions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 236-246

  Dolan, Lori A ^a   Weinstein, Stuart L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 84882813127     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7161-4-s1-o67     Document Type: Chapter

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