Prevalence of cerebral palsy in Turkish children between the ages of 2 and 16 years

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 413-416

  Serdaroǧlu, Ayşe ^a   Cansu, Ali ^a   Özkan, Seçil ^a   Tezcan, Sabahat ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSKINESIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TURKEY;

EID: 33646704184     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162206000910     Document Type: Article

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