Risk factors associated with occipital encephalocele: A case-control study - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 534-537

  Dadmehr, Majid ^a   Nejat, Farideh ^a   El Khashab, Mostafa ^b   Ansari, Saeed ^a   Baradaran, Nima ^a   Ertiaei, Abolhasan ^a   Bateni, Farzad ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic status; Encephalocele; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; PATERNAL AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 67649112356     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.2.PEDS08436     Document Type: Article

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