Major congenital malformations in Down syndrome
✍ Scribed by Martínez-Frías, M. L.; Bermejo, E.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19971128)73:1<91::aid-ajmg18>3.0.co;2-m
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✦ Synopsis
We have read with great interest the paper by Ka ¨lle ´n et al. [1996] on major congenital malformations in Down syndrome. We would like to comment that the increased risk for anorectal atresia and esophageal atresia in Down syndrome, as observed in this paper, was previously identified by Khoury
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