COMPARISON OF COBB ANGLE MEASUREMENT IN SCOLIOSIS BY RESIDENTS AND SPINE EXPERTS

ABSTRACT Objective: The adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a spine deformity that occurs in both the coronal plane and the sagittal plane of patients between 10 and 17 years. The Cobb method is the most widely used to determine the angular value of scoliosis and it is defined as the "go...

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Main Authors: Rafael Ritter, Yoshinobu Nagasse, Iberê Ribeiro, Clovis Yamazato, Fabio Mastromauro de Oliveira, René Kusabara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Coluna (SBC) 2016-03-01
Series:Coluna/Columna
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-18512016000100013&lng=en&tlng=en