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Leukocyte adhesion deficiency mimicking Hirschsprung disease
I R Rivera-Matos1, R M Rakita, M M Mariscalco
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School at Houston 77030, USA.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
An infant had clinical signs suggestive of Hirschsprung disease as the initial manifestation of leukocyte adhesion deficiency. Chromosome studies showed a deletion of the distal third of the long arm of one chromosome 21, and flow cytometric studies confirmed the defective expression of CD18.