Experience with unoperated cleft lip and palate patients in a Nigerian teaching hospital

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-36

  Olasoji, Oladapo ^a   Arotiba, Toyin ^a   Dogo, Dilli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LIP RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MAXILLA; NIGERIA; PALATOPLASTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036149046     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004947550203200117     Document Type: Article

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