Morphometric appraisal of the skull of Caroline Crachami, the Sicilian "dwarf" 1815?-1824: A contribution to the study of primordial microcephalic dwarfism

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 260-270

  Jeffery, Nathan ^a   Berkovitz, B K B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caroline Crachami; Computed tomography; Primordial microcephalic dwarfism; Seckel syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DWARFISM; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROCEPHALY; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECKEL SYNDROME; SELLA TURCICA; SKELETON; SKULL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DENTITION; FEMALE; HISTORY; PATHOLOGY;

DENTITION; DWARFISM; FEMALE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 19TH CENT.; HUMAN; MICROCEPHALY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS;

TURCICA;

EID: 0037101853     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.10559     Document Type: Article

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