Understanding Craniofacial Anomalies

Description

This comprehensive textbook, edited by world-renowned experts in the field, provides answers to challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of craniofacial anomalies.The book integrates basic science and clinical perspectives, creating a more unified and practical patient centered approach. Organized in a logical, easy-to-follow structure, this reference reviews and presents cutting-edge findings, covering the state of the art in craniosynostosis and facial clefting from molecular, genetic, cellular, tissue, organismic, and populations levels. Using standardized nomenclature and consistent terminology,Understanding Craniofacial Anomalies incorporates the recentexplosion of growth in studying genetic and epigenetic etiologies of syndromes, thereby providing a unique and holistic review of this important topic.

First Sentence

As your knowledge and experience inj morphology (i.e., shape) and dymorphology (i.e., abnormal shape) increase, you will find yourself scrutinizing the craniofacial and somatic morphology of the people around you, noticing subtle and notso-subtle asymmetries, deviations, and abnormalities in everyone.

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Other Editions

• Understanding Craniofacial Anomalies: The Etiopathogenesis of Craniosynostoses and Facial CleftingHardcoverWiley-Liss2002-05-03
• Understanding Craniofacial AnomaliesWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John2002-01-01