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Epidemiology of surgical admissions to a children's disability hospital in Nepal.

David A Spiegel, Om P Shrestha, Tarun Rajbhandary, Binod Bijukachhe, Prakash Sitoula, Bibek Banskota, and Ashok Banskota

World J Surg 34(5):954-62 (2010) PMID 20177682

The goal of this retrospective review was to characterize the spectrum of surgical admissions to a tertiary hospital specializing in musculoskeletal conditions in children and adolescents in Nepal.

DOI: 10.1007/s00268-010-0487-3
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