Tibial length growth curves for ambulatory children and adolescents with cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Oeffinger, Donna ^a   Conaway, Mark ^b   Stevenson, Richard ^b   Hall, John ^c   Shapiro, Robert ^c   Tylkowski, Chester ^a,d  

^a Shriners Hospitals for Children   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GAIT; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; GROWTH CURVE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIBIA; VALIDITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TIBIA; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955721036     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03711.x     Document Type: Article

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