True lambdoid craniosynostosis: Long-term results of surgical and conservative therapy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 993-1003

  Smartt Jr , James M ^b   Reid, Russell R ^b   Singh, Davinder J ^b   Bartlett, Scott P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CRANIOMETRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE DYSMORPHIA; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STATISTICS;

CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; OSTEOTOMY; PANNICULITIS, PERITONEAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548419297     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000278043.28952.e8     Document Type: Article

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