Metopic synostosis: Quantitative assessment of presenting deformity and surgical results based on ct scans

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 16-24

  Posnick, Jeffrey C ^a   Lin, Kant Y ^a   Chen, Phillip ^a   Armstrong, Derek ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTELORISM; INFANT; MALE; ORBIT; OSTEOTOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNOSTOSIS;

CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FACIAL BONES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0028069585     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199401000-00003     Document Type: Article

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