Diagnosis and management of posterior plagiocephaly

Pediatrics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 180-185

  Pollack, Ian F ^a   Losken, H Wolfgang ^a   Fasick, Patricia ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

children; deformation; lambdoid; plagiocephaly; synostosis; treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL MALFORMATION; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030892438     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.99.2.180     Document Type: Article

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