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Evaluation of the anatomic burden of patients with hereditary multiple exostoses.
Clinical orthopaedics and related research - 1 Sept 2007
Alvarez Christine M, De Vera Mary A, Heslip Tim R, Casey Brett
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary multiple exostosis (HME) is an autosomal dominant condition resulting predominantly from mutations in the exostosin 1 (EXT1) and exostosin 2 (EXT2) genes. We asked two questions in our study: first, what is the anatomic burden of subjects with HME; second, is there a difference in anatomic burden in subjects with EXT 1 versus EXT 2. The anatomic burden experienced by HME patients was defined according...
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