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Tissue Engineering of Tumor Stromal Microenvironment with Application to Cancer Cell Invasion
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Tumoral calcinosis and Engelmann disease
Birth Defects Original Article Series
|January 1, 1976
Abstract:
Four cases of Engelmann disease were observed in a dominant inheritance pattern in a family of St. Landry Mulattoes. In the youngest sibship, one of the cases also had tumoral calcinosis. Another sib had only tumoral calcinosis, though some findings suggested that this sib may also have had Engelmann disease. All 3 of the younger sibs had snow-capped teeth. It is suggested by this family that snow-capped teeth may be part of the syndrome of Engelmann disease.
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