Frontoethmoidal encephalocele: Treatment and outcome

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 175-183

  Arshad, Ahmad Ridzwan ^a   Selvapragasam, T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Encephalocele; Foramen cecum; Frontoethmoidal encephalocele; Hypertelorism

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOCELE; EXCISION; FEMALE; FINGER MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; FRONTOETHMOID ENCEPHALOCELE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUTH MALFORMATION; ORBIT; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOE MALFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALOCELE; ETHMOID BONE; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MALE; ORBIT; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POVERTY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TOES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549122774     PISSN: 10492275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/scs.0b013e3181534a77     Document Type: Article

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