Metopic synostosis: Defining the temporal sequence of normal suture fusion and differentiating it from synostosis on the basis of computed tomography images

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1211-1218

  Weinzweig, Jeffrey ^b   Kirschner, Richard E ^b   Farley, Alexander ^b   Reiss, Philip ^b   Hunter, Jill ^b   Whitaker, Linton A ^b   Bartlett, Scott P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUTURING METHOD; CRANIAL SUTURE; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0142008703     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000080729.28749.A3     Document Type: Article

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