A consecutive series of 37 individuals admitted to the hospital for elective temporomandibular joint (TMJ) reconstructive surgery and 3 seen as outpatients with TMJ disease were evaluated for rheumatic disease or for another etiologic factor that might account for this problem. These 40 patients wer
Joint laxity and the risk of clubfoot
โ Scribed by Andrew F. Olshan; Jane C. Schroeder; Beth W. Alderman; Vincent S. Mosca
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 67
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1542-0752
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