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The case of a 20-week fetus is reported with almost completely deficient ossification of the vertebral bodies and absent ossification of several long bones. This could be a unique skeletal dysplasia or the most severe end of the atelosteogenesis spectrum.
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Fryer, A.E., Carty, H. A new lethal skeletal dysplasia or the severe end of the atelosteogenesis spectrum?. Pediatr Radiol 26, 678–679 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01356834
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01356834