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[Duplication of mouth and mandible. Apropos of a case]
B Chaouachi1, S Ben Salah, M Trabelsi
1Service de Chirurgie B, Hôpital d'Enfants, Bab Saadoun, Tunis, Tunisie.
Annales De Pediatrie
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report a case of duplication of the mouth, tongue, mandible, and cervical spine in a female neonate. Findings in this patient were somewhat different from those in previously reported cases. Clinical, radiological and therapeutic features in this localized duplication are reviewed. Embryologic hypotheses include defective midline development, such as in the split notochord syndrome, and development of totipotent cells from the first branchial arch.