What is the optimal time to start helmet therapy in positional plagiocephaly?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 492-498

  Kluba, Susanne ^a,b   Kraut, Wiebke ^a,b   Reinert, Siegmar ^a,b   Krimmel, Michael ^a,b  

^a Klinik und Poliklinik fur Mund   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HELMET; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; ORTHOTICS; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; CEPHALOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PLAGIOCEPHALY, NONSYNOSTOTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051528427     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31821b62d6     Document Type: Article

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