A 100-year-old anatomical specimen presenting with boomerang-like skeletal dysplasia: Diagnostic strategies and outcome

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 134-139

  Oostra, Roelof Jan ^a   Dijkstra, Piet F ^a   Baljet, Bob ^a   Verbeeten, Ben W J M ^a   Hennekam, Raoul C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anatomical specimen; Atelosteogenesis type I; Boomerang dysplasia; Piepkorn type skeletal dysplasia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BONE DYSPLASIA; BRACHYCEPHALY; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HYPERTELORISM; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROGNATHIA; MICROPHTHALMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BONE AND BONES; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033031541     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19990716)85:2<134::AID-AJMG7>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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