The beaten copper cranium: A correlation between intracranial pressure, cranial radiographs, and computed tomographic scans in children with craniosynostosis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 691-699

  Tuite, Gerald F ^a,b   Evanson, Jane ^a   Chong, W K ^a   Thompson, Dominic N P ^a   Harkness, William F ^a   Jones, Barry M ^a   Hayward, Richard D ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Craniosynostosis; Cranium; Hydrocephalus; Intracranial pressure; Luckenschadel

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CROUZON SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029789937     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199610000-00007     Document Type: Article

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