Comparison of infant head shape changes in deformational plagiocephaly following treatment with a cranial remolding orthosis using a noninvasive laser shape digitizer

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1084-1091

  Plank, Laura H ^a   Giavedoni, Brian ^a   Lombardo, Janet R ^a   Geil, Mark D ^b   Reisner, Andrew ^a,c  

^a CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Children's Med Prof Building   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometrics; Cranial remolding; Deformational plagiocephaly; Orthotics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BONE DEFORMATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL VAULT ASYMMETRY INDEX; DEFORMATIONAL PLAGIOCEPHALY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEAD AND NECK MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER; LASER SHAPE DIGITIZER; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; ORTHOSIS; OVERALL SYMMETRY RATIO; PLAGIOCEPHALY; POSTERIOR SYMMETRY RATIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL SYMMETRY INDEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL MALFORMATION; SLEEP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEPHALOMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT; LASERS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PLAGIOCEPHALY, NONSYNOSTOTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845563033     PISSN: 10492275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.scs.0000244920.07383.85     Document Type: Article

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