Cobb angles are used to measure the severity in which disorder of the thoracic cage?

a. Ankylosing spondylitis
b. Flail chest
c. Scoliosis
d. Pectus excavatum


ANS: C
The degree of scoliosis is measured by the Cobb angle.

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