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Cranial base abnormalities in osteogenesis imperfecta: phenotypic and genotypic determinants.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1 Feb 2011
Cheung Moira S, Arponen Heidi, Roughley Peter, Azouz Michel E, Glorieux Francis H, Waltimo-Sirén Janna, Rauch Frank
Abstract excerpt
Cranial base abnormalities are an important complication of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a hereditary bone fragility disorder that in most patients is caused by mutations affecting collagen type I. To elucidate which clinical characteristics are associated with the occurrence of cranial base abnormalities in OI, we compared cephalometric results of 187 OI patients (median age 12.0 years, range 3.4 to 47 years;...
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