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Cristóbal A Passalacqua1, Victor P Villegas, Mariana I Aracena
1Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Carlos Van Buren, Valparaíso Division of Pediatrics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Genetics Unit, Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna Genetics Unit, Hospital Sótero del Río, Santiago, Chile.
Clinical Dysmorphology
|January 18, 2013
Abstract:
The combination of Dandy-Walker malformation, other central nervous system anomalies, and postaxial polydactyly has been reported previously in two pairs of siblings. We propose the name 'Pierquin syndrome' for this combination and we report a new patient with this disorder.
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