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Mild clinical phenotype and subtle radiographic findings in an infant with cartilage-hair hypoplasia.
The Turkish journal of pediatrics - 1 Jan 2000
Türkkani-Asal Gülten, Alanay Yasemin, Turul-Ozgür Tuba, Zenker Martin, Thiel Christian, Rauch Anita, Unal Sule, Gürgey Aytemiz, Tezcan Ilhan
Abstract excerpt
Cartilage-hair hypoplasia (CHH) is one of the well-known immuno-osseous dysplasias (IOD), which are a combination of skeletal dysplasia and immunodeficiency. It is characterized by disproportionate short stature, fine sparse hair, ligamentous laxity, hematological abnormalities with anemia, a predisposition to malignant tumors, and recurrent infections usually due to cellular and/or humoral immunodeficiency....
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