Research Journal of Applied Sciences

Year: 2010
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page No. 412 - 416

Incidence of Flat Foot and Anthropometric Comparison Between Flat and Normal Foot of the Yoruba Ehtnic Group of Nigeria

Authors : M.B.T. Umar and Adeyemi Paul

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