Clinical and goniometric evaluation of patients with spasmodic torticollis
✍ Scribed by Patrick Salvia; Olivier Champagne; Véronique Feipel; Marcel Rooze; Diederik Zegers de Beyl
- Book ID
- 116367048
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 307 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0268-0033
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