Israeli children with autism spectrum disorder are not macrocephalic

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 680-685

  Davidovitch, Michael ^a   Golan, Dafna ^a   Vardi, Orna ^a   Lev, Dorit ^b   Lerman Sagie, Tally ^c  

^a MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

autism spectrum disorder; developmental language disorder; head circumference; macrocephaly

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MACROCEPHALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEPHALOMETRY; HEAD; INFANT; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79955633682     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073810387666     Document Type: Article

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