Article
[Growth in head circumference: parent-child correlation and secular trend].
Arztliche Jugendkunde - 1 Jan 1990
Brandt I
Abstract excerpt
Head circumference is an important growth parameter; it is closely related to brain development in normal infants. Therefore regular meticulous measurements of head circumference can give diagnostic hints of abnormal brain growth, i. e., reduced growth as in severe malnutrition or accelerated as in hydrocephalus, for example. The results presented here are based on the Bonn Longitudinal Study on growth and...
Topics
- Cephalometry
- Female
- Genotype
- Head
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant, Premature
- Male
- Reference Values
