Head shape measurement standards and cranial orthoses in the treatment of infants with deformational plagiocephaly

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 568-576

  Mcgarry, Anthony ^a   Dixon, Melville T ^b   Greig, Robert J ^b   Hamilton, David R L ^b   Sexton, Sandra ^b   Smart, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ORTHOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PLAGIOCEPHALY, NONSYNOSTOTIC; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 48749116850     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03017.x     Document Type: Review

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