A rabbit model of human familial, nonsyndromic unicoronal suture synostosis. I. Synostotic onset, pathology, and sutural growth patterns

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 236-246

  Mooney, Mark P ^a   Siegel, Michael I ^a   Burrows, Annie M ^a,b   Smith, Timothy D ^a,b   Losken, H Wolfgang ^a,c   Dechant, Jason ^a   Cooper, Gregory ^a   Kapucu, M Rusen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Craniosynostosis; Growth; Morphology; Plagiocephaly; Rabbits

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CRANIAL SUTURE; CROUZON SYNDROME; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SYNOSTOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; SKULL;

EID: 0031816780     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050219     Document Type: Article

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