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Detection of epidermal thickening in GJB2 carriers with epidermal US.
Radiology - 1 Apr 2009
Guastalla Pierpaolo, Guerci Veronica Ileana, Fabretto Antonella, Faletra Flavio, Grasso Domenico Leonardo, Zocconi Elisabetta, Stefanidou Despina, D'Adamo Pio, Ronfani Luca, Montico Marcella, Morgutti Marcello, Gasparini Paolo
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To measure epidermal thickness by using skin ultrasonography (US) in a series of healthy control subjects and obligate carriers for the worldwide most frequent form of congenital hearing loss owing to the mutated alleles of the connexin 26 gene (GJB2). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The patent for the protocol, coupled with a new sonographic probe specifically designed to analyze epidermal thickness and a...
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