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Ectopic posterior pituitary lobe and periventricular heterotopia: cerebral malformations with the same underlying mechanism?
AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology - 1 Oct 2002
Mitchell L Anne, Thomas Paul Q, Zacharin Margaret R, Scheffer Ingrid E
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Ectopic posterior pituitary lobe often occurs in children with growth hormone deficiency and is part of the spectrum associated with septo-optic dysplasia. Some cases of septo-optic dysplasia are caused by homozygous mutations in the homeobox gene HESX1, whereas heterozygo...
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