This specially-designed, practical, easy-to-use handbook presents reference data for health professionals, especially clinical geneticists, evaluating children and adults with abnormal features or syndromes. Using a mixture of graphs, tables, and charts, it presents information clinicians require to define normal patterns of growth for various parts of the body, and provides the standards against which to compare possible congenital abnormalities. Numerous illustrations help toexplain exactly how standardized measurements should be taken to ensure accurate and comparable documentation of growth patterns.
Introduction; Measurement; Proportional growth and normal variants; Height and length; Weight; Head circumference; Craniofacies; Limbs; Chest and trunk; Genitalia; Skin and hair; Dermatoglyphics and trochoglyphics; Use of radiographs; Developmental data; Prenatal ultrasound measurements; Postmortem organ weights; Special measurements for special conditions; Approach to the child with a dysmorphic syndrome; Glossary.
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