[Middle interhemispheric variant of holoprosencephaly: a case report]
V Ribeiro1, H Reis, J F Teixeira
1Servicio de Neurorradiología, Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto, Portugal. valentina.ribeiro@clix.pt
Revista De Neurologia
|March 8, 2006
Abstract
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