Effect of serial casting in spastic cerebral palsy
β Scribed by Shweta Jain; Navnendra Mathur; Mrinal Joshi; Rajeshwari Jindal; Sunil Goenka
- Book ID
- 107598264
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 480 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-5456
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