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Bardet-Biedl syndrome in a Zimbabwean child
1Dept. of Pediatrics, United Bulawayo Hospitals.
The Central African Journal of Medicine
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
An isolated case of Bardet-Biedl syndrome in a 12 year-old Zimbabwean boy is described. The patient presented with retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly, mental retardation, obesity and hypogenitalism. To the best of the author's knowledge, it is the first paediatric case described in the African literature.