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Increasing incidence of club foot with higher population density: Incidence and geographical variation in Denmark over a 16–year period—an epidemiological study of 936,525 births

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Pages 839-846 | Received 29 Feb 2004, Accepted 04 Oct 2005, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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