Risser stages, menarche and their correlations with other growth parameters in a cohort of 3,553 Italian adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients

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  • S Minnella
  • S Donzelli
  • F Zaina
  • S Negrini
چکیده

Methods Study Design: Retrospective observational study. Population: A total of 3553 patients (2862 females, 691 males), aged between 10 and 21 years were included; each one had at least a clinical evaluation by our physicians and spinal X-rays. Methods: The two groups of females and males were separately divided into five subgroups according to Risser sign, (R0, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5), in order to analyse data of physiologic parameters (age, weight, height, BMI, menarche and two years after menarche) for each Risser level.

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دوره 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013