'Weight and height gain after intrathecal baclofen pump implantation in children with spastic tetraparesis' [2]

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 788-789

  Bottanelli, Mara ^a   Rubini, Gabriella ^b   Venturelli, Valerio ^b   Cosentino, Alessandro ^c   Rossato, Gianluca ^a   Vicentini, Silvana ^a   Romito, Silvia ^a   Rizzuto, Niccolò ^a   Bertolasi, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Rehabilitation Department   (Italy)

^c Medical Centre Claudio Santi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLONUS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPOREFLEXIA; IMPLANTATION; INFUSION PUMP; LEG MOVEMENT; LETTER; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SPASTICITY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BACLOFEN; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 7944236699     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162204221351     Document Type: Letter

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