The Ptolemaic concept versus the Copernican system: Rethinking the etiology and results of treatment in craniosynostosis in 2002

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 929-933

  Matic, Damir ^a   Vander Kolk, Craig A ^b  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3;

BRAIN GROWTH; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; EDITORIAL; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MSX2 GENE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; TWIST GENE;

ASTRONOMY; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS;

EID: 0037314526     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000039507.18032.D0     Document Type: Editorial

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