Changes in the volume and length of the medial gastrocnemius after surgical recession in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 769-774

  Fry, Nicola R ^a   Gough, Martin ^a   McNee, Anne E ^a   Shortland, Adam P ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 D ultrasound; Gastrocnemius; Muscle volume; Spastic cerebral palsy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MALFORMATION; MUSCLE MASS; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPASTICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; VULPIUS PROCEDURE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34548731408     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e3181558943     Document Type: Article

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