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. 2017 Dec 8;7(4):22-25.
doi: 10.4322/acr.2017.033. eCollection 2017 Oct-Dec.

Holoprosencephaly

Ameer Hamza  1 , Martha Jaye Higgins  1
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Holoprosencephaly

Ameer Hamza et al. Autops Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Brain; Holoprosencephaly; Nervous system malformations.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Macroscopic appearance of the brain depicting complex gyration without classical sulcal landmarks (A and B) and focal polymicrogyria (A), flattened cerebral hemispheres surrounding a single cystically dilated ventricle (C), fused right and left basal ganglia and diencephalic structures (C), unremarkable midbrain, cerebellum and medulla (D).
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