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A further case of Bardet-Biedl syndrome
1University of Zimbabwe, Department of Neurosurgery, Harare.
The Central African Journal of Medicine
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
Bardet-Biedl syndrome in a 10 year old boy from Botswana is described. The patient presented with retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly, mental retardation, obesity and hypogenitalism. The patient has a twin brother who has the same clinical signs. This is the second time this condition has been described in the African literature and the first time reported in Black twins.
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