Cleft lip and palate surgery carried out by one team in Uganda: Where have all the palates gone?

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-304

  Wilson, Joanna ^a   Hodges, Andrew ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Mengo Hospital   (Uganda)

Author keywords

African Americans; Asians; Caucasians; Cleft lip; Cleft palate; Epidemiology; Incidence; Racial variation; Ratios lip:palate:lip and palate

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UGANDA; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UGANDA;

EID: 84864065898     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: 15451569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/09-039     Document Type: Article

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