A number of recent reports have called attention to a group of patients who share the main clinical findings of the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS), albeit with an unusually severe degree of expression. This has included severe or even complete failure of genital development in males, multiple vis
Rebuttal to the invited comment of Opitz and Carey
β Scribed by Kim L. McBride
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 59 KB
- Volume
- 155
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4825
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