The changing epidemiologic spectrum of single-suture synostoses

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 527-533

  Selber, Jesse ^a   Reid, Russell R ^a   Chike Obi, Chuma J ^a   Sutton, Leslie N ^a   Zackai, Elaine H ^a   McDonald Mcginn, Donna ^a   Sonnad, Seema S ^a   Whitaker, Linton A ^a   Bartlett, Scott P ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT INFORMATION; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SYNOSTOSIS;

CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PHILADELPHIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349229415     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31817d548c     Document Type: Article

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