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Histopathological analysis of Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis: disordered growth plate.
Hand surgery : an international journal devoted to hand and upper limb surgery and related research : journal of the Asia-Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand - 1 Jul 2001
Munns C F, Glass I A, LaBrom R, Hayes M, Flanagan S, Berry M, Hyland V J, Batch J A, Philips G E, Vickers D
Abstract excerpt
Leri-Weill syndrome (LWS) is a dominant (pseudoautosomal) skeletal dysplasia with mesomelic short stature and bilateral Madelung deformity, due to dyschondrosteosis of the distal radius. It results from the loss of one copy of the Short Stature Homeobox Gene (SHOX) from the tip of the short arm of the X or Y chromosome. SHOX molecular testing enabled us to evaluate the histopathology of the radial physis in LWS...
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