Parietal bone agenesis with gracile bones and splenic hypoplasia/aplasia: Clinico-pathologic report and differential diagnosis with review of cranio-gracile bone syndromes, "osteocraniostenosis" and kleeblattschädel

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 140, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2341-2348

  Spear, Gerald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloverleaf skull; Gracile bones; Kleeblattsch del; Osteocraniostenosis; Parietal bone agenesis

Indexed keywords

AGENESIS; ASPLENIA; BONE MALFORMATION; BONE MINERALIZATION; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIO GRACILE BONE SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FETUS; GENE MUTATION; GRACILE BONE AGENESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KLEEBLATTSCHADEL; LONG BONE; MALE; OSTEOCRANIOSTENOSIS; PARIETAL BONE AGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL MALFORMATION; SPLEEN HYPOPLASIA;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BONE AND BONES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PARIETAL BONE; PREGNANCY; SKULL; SPLEEN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750579606     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.31473     Document Type: Review

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