Functional gait comparison between children with myelomeningocele: Shunt versus no shunt

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 764-769

  Battibugli, Simone ^a   Gryfakis, Nicholas ^a   Dias, Luciano ^a,b   Kelp Lenane, Claudia ^a   Figlioli, Stephanie ^a   Fitzgerald, Elizabeth ^a   Hroma, Nicole ^a   Seshadri, Roopa ^a   Sullivan, Christine ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Motion Analysis Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MOBILIZATION; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; WALKING AID; WALKING SPEED; WHEELCHAIR;

CHILD; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 34648846051     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00764.x     Document Type: Article

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