Osteopetrosis and Chiari type I malformation: a rare association
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Osteopetrosis and Chiari type I malformation: a rare association
Osteopetrosis (OP) is hereditary X-linked, autosomal recessive (ARO), or autosomal dominant (ADO) skeletal disease. ARO has two subtypes, which are infantile malignant and intermediate type. ARO and X-linked OP have poor clinical outcome. ADO is called adult benign type because of the normal life expectancy, which has type I and type II. Here, the authors present an ADO patient with Chiari type...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Surgical Case Reports
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2042-8812
DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjv084