Cross-validation of TRACE and eTRACE (Formetric TRACE) for aesthetics evaluation in scoliosis patients
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Cross-validation of TRACE and eTRACE (Formetric TRACE) for aesthetics evaluation in scoliosis patients
Introduction The aesthetic issue is one of the main aim in the treatment of Idiopathic Scoliosis (IS) as defined by SOSORT. TRACE is a tool, recently developed, which standardize the subjective medical experts evaluation and has shown a fair sensitivity and repeatability in the everyday clinical setting for the evaluation of aesthetics in IS patients. Recently, it was also successfully investig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scoliosis
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1748-7161
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7161-5-s1-o7