Plagiocephaly - More questions than answers

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1181, 2003, Pages

  Mitchell, E ^a   Hutchison, B Lynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HELMET; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NECK MUSCLE; NEW ZEALAND; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PLAGIOCEPHALY WITHOUT SYNOSTOSIS; SKULL SURGERY; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 26044443770     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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