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財團法人陽光社會福利基金會 辦理
劃撥帳號 05583335
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The 'Epidemic' of Deformational Plagiocephaly
and the American Academy of Pediatrics' Response. |
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Source/ Journal of Prosthetics & Orthotics,
Vol. 16, Num. 4S, pp. 5-8, 2004.
Author(s) / Wendy S. Biggs, MD
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Historically, cradleboards and other external pressure devices
have been used to intentionally mold children's skulls into desirable shapes
to signify high social status, ethnicity, or both. 1 In the last 10 years,
several tertiary care centers in the United States have noticed a marked
increase in the incidence of unintentionally flattened asymmetric infant
skulls. 2,3 Multiple terms have been used to describe this posterior skull
deformation: functional synostosis, 4 plagiocephaly without synostosis, 3
deformational plagiocephaly, 5 positional plagiocephaly, 6 lambdoid positional
molding, 7 occipital plagiocephaly, 8 and positional skull deformity. 9 Whatever
the term used, the infants all had varying degrees of unilateral occipital
flattening, forehead protrusion, facial asymmetry, anteriorly displaced ears,
and almost all slept on their backs. |
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