| Literature DB >> 18075729 |
A Meurer1, T Lewens, D Schmitt, T Vetter, P Drees.
Abstract
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a congenital connective tissue disorder with an incidence of up to 1:30,000. Patients suffer from deformities and fractures, and many of them never reach ambulation. The therapy consists of conservative, medicamentous and operative procedures that are described in this article.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18075729 DOI: 10.1007/s00132-007-1177-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Orthopade ISSN: 0085-4530 Impact factor: 1.087