Deformational plagiocephaly: Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-64

  Losee, Joseph E ^a,b   Mason, A Corde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXERCISE; HELMET; HUMAN; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SLEEP PATTERN; SUPINE POSITION; INFANT;

HUMANS; INFANT; PLAGIOCEPHALY, NONSYNOSTOTIC; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 14744293008     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2004.08.003     Document Type: Review

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