New severity indices for quantifying single-suture metopic craniosynostosis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 318-324

  Ruiz Correa, Salvador ^a,b   Starr, Jacqueline R ^c   Lin, H Jill ^d   Kapp Simon, Kathleen A ^e   Sze, Raymond W ^b   Ellenbogen, Richard G ^c   Speltz, Matthew L ^c   Cunningham, Michael L ^f,g  

^a Probability and Statistics Research Group   (Mexico)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Mailstop W7847   (United States)

Author keywords

Metopic synostosis; Severity indices; Shape analysis; Single suture craniosynostosis; Trigonocephaly

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; SKULL MALFORMATION; TRIGONOCEPHALY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIAL SUTURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL;

EID: 64849106487     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000316417.06500.DA     Document Type: Article

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