Revisiting metatropic dysplasia: Presentation of a series of 19 novel patients and review of the literature

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Metatropic dysplasia (MD-OMIM: 156530 and 250600) is a rare chondrodysplasia characterized by short limbs with limitation and enlargement of joints and usually severe kyphoscoliosis, first described in 1893. Up until now, 81 other patients have been reported. The phenotypic variability of MD has led to a classification based on radiological anomalies dividing into three different types: a lethal autosomal...

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