We report on a 35-week gestation female fetus with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria (HGP). This patient, who is the first reported with neonatal HGP in the English literature but is the fourth, counting three previous French cases, supports the existence of a more severe prenatal form of progeria. She di
Hutchinson-Gilford progeria: Familial occurrence
✍ Scribed by Parkash, H. ;Sidhu, S. S. ;Raghavan, R. ;Deshmukh, R. N.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 317 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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