Hypoplastic or absent mandibular frenulum: A new predictive sign of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 408-410

  De Felice, Claudio ^a,b   Di Maggio, Giovanni ^a   Zagordo, Luigi ^a   Parrini, Stefano ^a   Toti, Paolo ^a   Tota, Giovanni ^a   Bagnoli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; INFANT; MALE; MANDIBLE HYPOPLASIA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0033913030     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2000.103506     Document Type: Article

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