New world cranial deformation practices: Historical implications for pathophysiology of cognitive impairment in deformational plagiocephaly

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1137-1146

  Lekovic, Gregory P ^a   Baker, Brenda ^b   Lekovic, Jill M ^c   Preul, Mark C ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Cranial deformation; Craniosynostosis; Neurosurgical history; Plagiocephaly

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ART; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEAD POSITION; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFORMATION CENTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL MALFORMATION;

COGNITION DISORDERS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PLAGIOCEPHALY, NONSYNOSTOTIC;

EID: 34249815180     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255462.99516.B0     Document Type: Article

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