Cranioplasty in medieval Persia and the potential spread of this knowledge to Europe

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1993-1996

  Shoja, Mohammadali M ^a   Agutter, Paul S ^b   Loukas, Marios ^c   Shokouhi, Ghaffar ^d   Khalili, Majid ^a   Farhoudi, Mehdi ^e   Tubbs, R Shane ^f  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Theoretical Medicine and Biology Group   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^d TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranioplasty; Cranium; History; Middle East; Skull; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRANIOPLASTY; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROSURGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL INJURY; SKULL SURGERY; SKULL TUMOR; XERORADIOGRAPHY;

CRANIOTOMY; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EUROPE; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; PERSIA; SKULL;

EID: 84871235054     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-012-1876-8     Document Type: Article

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