Behavioral profiles of children with infantile nephropathic cystinosis
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Behavioral profiles of children with infantile nephropathic cystinosis.
Children with infantile nephropathic cystinosis have evidence of visuospatial and arithmetic deficits on a background of normal intellectual and verbal skills. This study aimed to define further their behavioral phenotype. The Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist was completed by parents of: 64 children and adolescents with cystinosis (33 females, 31 males; mean age 8 y 8 mo, range 4 to 16y, SD 2...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0012-1622,1469-8749
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2005.tb01161.x