Do We Need the Term "FAE"?

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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) was first recognized as a distinct clinical entity by Jones and Smith in 1973.1 In their first reports,2,3 all affected children had been born to severely alcoholic women, and had in common problems in three major categories: 1. prenatal and/or postnatal growth deficiency; 2. abnormal brain function reflected in mental deficit; and 3. a distinctive pattern of mild facial...

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