We report on two unrelated children, a girl and a boy, with regressive metaphyseal dysplasia. Both children had bow legs and a transient growth decline in early childhood. Metaphyseal modifications of the long bones in the children were most conspicuous at an early age and then subsided by age 2 to
Brachyolmia: Radiographic and genetic evidence of heterogeneity
β Scribed by Shohat, M. ;Lachman, R. ;Gruber, H. E. ;Rimoin, D. L.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 844 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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