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Hall type of pseudoachondroplasia

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A disturbance characterised by severe dwarfism, limb shortening and variable spinal alignment.

Bibliography

  • P. Maroteaux, M. Lamy:
    Les formes pseudoachondroplastiques des dysplasies spondyloepiphysaires.
    Presse médicale, Paris, 1959, 67: 383-386.
  • J. G. Hall, J. P. Dorst:
    Four types of pseudoachondroplastic spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (SED).
    Birth Defects Original Article Series, New York, 1969, V: 242-257.
  • J. G. Hall, M. Grossman:
    Case resport F2 – pseudoachondroplastic SED.
    Birth Defects Original Article Series, New York, 1969, V: 207-210.
  • J. G. Hall:
    Pseudoachondroplasia (pseudoachondroplastic spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia.
    American Journal of Diseases of Children, Chicago, 1974, 128: 833-834. Pseudoachondroplasia.
    Birth Defects Original Article Series, New York, 1975, XI: 187-202.
  • J. T. Hecht, C. A. Francomano, M. D. Briggs, M. Deere, B. Connor, W. A. Horton, M. Warman, D. H. Cohn, S. H. Blanton:
    Linkage of typical pseudoachondroplasia to chromosome 19.
    Genomics, 1993, 18: 661-666.

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