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 syndrome: Review of the phenotype
✍ Scribed by Raoul C.M. Hennekam
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 954 KB
- Volume
- 140A
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4825
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