## Abstract A 10‐year‐old boy was found to have an unusual presentation of the Sprengel anomaly, omovertebral bones, and segmentation defects of the vertebral column at the cervical, thoracic, and sacral level. In addition, he showed hypertelorism, downslanting palpebral fissures, ptosis, webbing,
Multiple vertebral segmentation defects and rib anomalies
✍ Scribed by Martínez-Frías, M.L.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 111 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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