Congenital hypotonia: Clinical and developmental assessment

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 889-892

  Harris, Susan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BARLEY SCALE OF INFANT AND TODDLER DEVELOPMENT; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; CONGENITAL MYASTHENIC SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JOINT CONTRACTURE; MICROCEPHALY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TENDON REFLEX; VISION; WEAKNESS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 56849098063     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03097.x     Document Type: Review

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