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Letter to the editor concerning ‘Healthcare disparities in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: the impact of socioeconomic factors on Cobb angle’ by Taylor Russell et al. [Spine Deformity (2020) 8:605–611]

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A Letter to the Editor to this article was published on 02 November 2020

The Original Article was published on 11 March 2020

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Bhavuk Garg & Nishank Mehta

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Garg, B., Mehta, N. Letter to the editor concerning ‘Healthcare disparities in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: the impact of socioeconomic factors on Cobb angle’ by Taylor Russell et al. [Spine Deformity (2020) 8:605–611]. Spine Deform 8, 1385–1386 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43390-020-00219-w

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