A study of family head shape: Environment alters cranial shape

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-63

  Pomatto, Jeanne K ^a   Calcaterra, Jennifer ^a   Kelly, Kevin M ^c   Beals, Stephen P ^b   Manwaring, Kim H ^d   Littlefield, Timothy R ^a  

^a Cranial Technologies Incorporated   (United States)

^b Southwest Craniofacial Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PLAGIOCEPHALY; SKULL; SKULL MALFORMATION; STANDARDIZATION; SYNOSTOSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL SUTURES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PLAGIOCEPHALY, NONSYNOSTOTIC; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; SKULL;

EID: 33644867080     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280604500109     Document Type: Article

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