Craniosynostosis: Diagnosis and management in the new millennium

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 600-612

  Keating, Robert F ^a,b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CROUZON SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; REVIEW; SKULL MALFORMATION; SKULL SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0030763246     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/0090-4481-19971001-07     Document Type: Review

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