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Specific ultrasonographic features of perinatal lethal hypophosphatasia.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 May 2008
Zankl Andreas, Mornet Etienne, Wong Shell
Abstract excerpt
Prenatal diagnosis of perinatal lethal hypophosphatasia (PL-HPH) by ultrasonography is difficult as PL-HPH must be differentiated from other skeletal dysplasias with short long bones and poor mineralization of the skeleton, such as osteogenesis imperfecta type II and achondrogenesis/hypochondrogenesis. Here we present a case of molecularly confirmed PL-HPH and illustrate specific ultrasonographic findings that...
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