Growth restriction of cranial sutures in the fetal lamb causes deformational changes, not craniosynostosis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2416-2423

  Bradley, James P ^b   Shahinian, Hrayr ^b   Levine, Jamie P ^b   Rowe, Norman ^b   Longaker, Michael T ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LAMB; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

EID: 0034034560     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-200006000-00017     Document Type: Article

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