Referral pattern and surgical outcome of sagittal synostosis

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 211-215

  Chatterjee, Justin S ^a   Mahmoud, Mahtab ^a   Karthikeyan, Shanmugam ^a   Duncan, Christian ^a   Dover, Michael S ^a   Nishikawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cranial index; Outcome; Referral; Sagittal synostosis; Scaphocephaly

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PEDIATRICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL SURGERY; SYNOSTOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; CRANIOTOMY; ENGLAND; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; PEDIATRICS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALES;

EID: 58349121247     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.10.042     Document Type: Article

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