Analysis of routine intensive care unit admission following fronto-orbital advancement for craniosynostosis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Seruya, Mitchel ^a   Sauerhammer, Tina M ^a   Basci, Deniz ^a   Rogers, Gary F ^a   Boyajian, Michael J ^a   Myseros, John S ^a   Yaun, Amanda L ^a   Keating, Robert F ^a   Oh, Albert K ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PATIENT ADMISSION; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878084599     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3182818e94     Document Type: Article

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