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[Hypochondroplasia: importance of radiological findings in the differential diagnosis of short statures of different origin].
Recenti progressi in medicina - 1 Jan 2000
Iannaccone R, Tiberti A C
Abstract excerpt
Hypochondroplasia is a genetic skeletal dysplasia characterized by disproportionate short stature, stocky appearance and several clinical and radiological features very similar, but much milder, than those of classical achondroplasia, including shortened and stubby long bones, decreased lumbo-sacral interpediculate distances, posterior scalloping of the lumbar vertebrae, metaphyseal flaring, and moderate...
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