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. 2012 Sep;7(3):238-9.
doi: 10.4103/1817-1745.106493.

A rare cause of congenital ptosis: Blepharophimosis, ptosis and epicanthus inversus syndrome

Gururaj Setty  1 , Arif Khan, Rashid Saleem, Nahin Hussain
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A rare cause of congenital ptosis: Blepharophimosis, ptosis and epicanthus inversus syndrome

Gururaj Setty et al. J Pediatr Neurosci. 2012 Sep.
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22-month-old girl presented with blepharophimosis, ptosis and epicanthus inversus syndrome due to a sporadic mutation in FOXL2 gene
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