OPEN SPINA BIFIDA: A COMPLETE COHORT REVIEWED 25 YEARS AFTER CLOSURE

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 19-29

  Hunt, Gillian M ^a   Poulton, Alison ^b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINA BIFIDA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CAREGIVERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONS; PARENTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0028893202     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1995.tb11929.x     Document Type: Article

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