Differential Diagnosis of the Trapezoid-Shaped Head

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-19

  Ehret, Frederick W ^a   Whelan, Michael F ^a   Ellenbogen, Richard G ^a   Cunningham, Michael L ^a   Gruss, Joseph S ^a  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronal; Craniosynostosis; Deformational; Head shape; Lambdoid; Parallelogram; Plagiocephaly; Trapezoid

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; PATHOLOGY; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL MALFORMATION; SLEEP;

CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; POSTURE; SLEEP;

EID: 0347724017     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/02-053     Document Type: Review

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