New finnish reference for head circumference from birth to 7 years

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-374

  Karvonen, Marjo ^a   Hannila, Marja Leena ^a   Saari, Antti ^a   Dunkel, Leo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child; Growth chart; Head circumference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; FINLAND; GROUPS BY AGE; GROWTH CURVE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MODEL; MONITORING; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; GROWTH CHARTS; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 84860197486     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 13652060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853890.2011.558519     Document Type: Article

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