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UNIQUE PRESENTATION OF OSTEOPETROSIS.
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC - 1 Jan 2000
Dharamshi Hasnain Abbas, Ahmed Syed Arsalan, Mohsin Ali Abbas, Mustahsan Syed Muhammad, Devi Reshma, Iqbal Anaam, Abidi Syed Muhammad All
Abstract excerpt
Osteopetrosis is a rare hereditary disorder of osteoclast dysfunction leading to abnormally dense and sclerotic bones that are fragile and break easily. It can be inherited in various patterns like autosomal-dominant, autosomal-recessive or as X-linked traits, but the most grievous forms of its inheritance are the autosomal-recessive ones, which show early onset and are associated with very poor prognosis. We...
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