Seminars in Spine Surgery
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 126-131 , September 2010

Use of Instrumentation in the Correction of Congenital Spinal Deformities

  • Ibrahim Akel, MD
    • ,
  • Muharrem Yazici, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Muharrem Yazici, MD, Department of Orthopaedics Sihhiye, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, 06100 Ankara, Turkey

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doi: 10.1053/j.semss.2010.03.006

Seminars in Spine Surgery
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 126-131 , September 2010

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