The role of congenital muscular torticollis in the development of deformational plagiocephaly

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 643-652

  Rogers, Gary F ^a,b   Oh, Albert K ^a,b   Mulliken, John B ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONGENITAL TORTICOLLIS; CRANIOMETRY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OCCIPITAL BONE; PARENT; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SYNDROME; TORTICOLLIS; TWINS; INCIDENCE; NECK MUSCLE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR;

HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; NECK MUSCLES; PLAGIOCEPHALY, NONSYNOSTOTIC; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 61449256650     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318196b9be     Document Type: Article

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