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Skeletal maturation and long-bone growth patterns of patients with progeria: a retrospective study.
The Lancet. Child & adolescent health - 1 Apr 2020
Tsai Andy, Johnston Patrick R, Gordon Leslie B, Walters Michele, Kleinman Monica, Laor Tal
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (termed progeria in this Article) is a rare sporadic genetic disorder. One early clinical manifestation of progeria is abnormal skeletal growth, yet this growth has not been fully characterised. We aimed to characterise the skeletal maturation and long-bone growth patterns of patients with the clinical phenotype of progeria. METHODS: For this retrospective study,...
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