Cleft lip and/or palate: One organization's experience with more than a quarter million surgeries during the past decade

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1601-1609

  Brydon, Carolyn A ^a,c   Conway, Julia ^a,b   Kling, Rochelle ^a,d   Mehta, Lakshmi ^a,b   Jabs, Ethylin Wang ^a,b   Taub, Peter J ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleft lip; Cleft palate; Epidemiology; India; Nongovernmental organization

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84914665474     PISSN: 10492275     EISSN: 15363732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000000883     Document Type: Article

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