Thanatophoric dysplasia: case report of an autopsy complemented by postmortem computed tomographic study
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Thanatophoric dysplasia: case report of an autopsy complemented by postmortem computed tomographic study
Thanatophoric dysplasia (TD) is one of the most common lethal skeletal dysplasias, which was first designated as thanatophoric dwarfism and described in 1967. The authors report a case of a Caucasian girl with TD, born to a 31-year-old woman without comorbidities. The newborn presented respiratory distress immediately after delivery, progressing to death in less than 2 hours. An autopsy was car...
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عنوان ژورنال: Autopsy and Case Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2236-1960
DOI: 10.4322/acr.2014.019