Spring-assisted cranioplasty alters the growth vectors of adjacent cranial sutures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 470-474

  Davis, Charles ^a   Windh, Per ^a   Lauritzen, Claes G K ^a  

^a Central and Southern New Zealand Craniofacial Program   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CRANIOPLASTY; FRONTAL BONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURECTOMY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PATHOLOGY; SKULL; SURGERY;

ANIMALS; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; RABBITS; SKULL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 61449189961     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181954ce3     Document Type: Article

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