Preterm infant with diprosopus and holoprosencephaly

Diprosopus is an extremely rare congenital anomaly involving craniofacial duplication. The etiology and pathophysiology remain unknown, and no genetic mutations have been definitively associated with the condition. This case describes an infant born at 27‐weeks completed gestation with multiple cong...

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Autores principales: Nair, Nitya M., Swarr, Daniel T., Barnes‐Davis, Maria E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8695654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34987809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5163
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description Diprosopus is an extremely rare congenital anomaly involving craniofacial duplication. The etiology and pathophysiology remain unknown, and no genetic mutations have been definitively associated with the condition. This case describes an infant born at 27‐weeks completed gestation with multiple congenital anomalies including diprosopus and discusses the implications of prenatal diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-86956542022-01-04 Preterm infant with diprosopus and holoprosencephaly Nair, Nitya M. Swarr, Daniel T. Barnes‐Davis, Maria E. Clin Case Rep Case Report Diprosopus is an extremely rare congenital anomaly involving craniofacial duplication. The etiology and pathophysiology remain unknown, and no genetic mutations have been definitively associated with the condition. This case describes an infant born at 27‐weeks completed gestation with multiple congenital anomalies including diprosopus and discusses the implications of prenatal diagnosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8695654/ /pubmed/34987809 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5163 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Preterm infant with diprosopus and holoprosencephaly
title Preterm infant with diprosopus and holoprosencephaly
title_full Preterm infant with diprosopus and holoprosencephaly
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title_short Preterm infant with diprosopus and holoprosencephaly
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8695654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34987809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5163
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