The influence of age at single-event multilevel surgery on outcome in children with cerebral palsy who walk with flexed knee gait

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 730-735

  Švehlík, Martin ^a,b   Steinwender, Gerhard ^a   Kraus, Tanja ^a   Saraph, Vinay ^a   Lehmann, Thomas ^c   Linhart, Wolfgang E ^a   Zwick, Ernst B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE EVENT MULTILEVEL SURGERY; SPASTIC CEREBRAL PALSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 79960088904     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03995.x     Document Type: Article

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