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A 2-year-old deeply mentally handicapped girl is reported with a multiple synostosis syndrome, as delineated by Maroteaux et al. (1972). Besides the multiple synostoses the peculiar facial dysmorphism and the hearing deficit allow, the clinical diagnosis of this apparently rare syndrome.
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Pedersen, J.C., Fryns, J.P., Carpentier, G. et al. Multiple synostosis syndrome. Eur J Pediatr 134, 273–275 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00441486
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