Teaching NeuroImages: Hypothalamic hamartoma and polydactyly: Think Pallister-Hall syndrome
Grace Yan Ling Ler1, Wendy Kein-Meng Liew1, Jocelyn Lim1
1From the Departments of Paediatrics (G.Y.L.L., W.K.-M.L., J.L., J.Y.L., S.S.J.), Paediatric Surgery (L.Y.O.), Radiology (P.H.T.), and Neurosurgery (D.L.), KK Women's and Children's Hospital; Neurology Centre (W.K.-M.L.), Singapore Baby and Child Clinic; Paediatric Academic Medical Programme (J.L.), Institute of Precision Medicine (S.S.J.), Duke-NUS Medical School; and Department of Radiology (T.L.), National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore.
Neurology
|December 4, 2019
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