Acalvaria: An Extremely Rare Congenital Skull Malformation

Autor: Kamran Dehghan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: International Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 7, Iss 5, Pp 9423-9427 (2019)
ISSN: 2345-5055
2345-5047
Popis: Acalvaria defined as absent skull bones, is an extremely rare congenital anomaly with only a handful of cases reported in literature. In this report we presented a male newborn case of acalvaria referred to our hospital (Shahid Motahari hospital of Urmia, Iran). The condition per se has been described as having high mortality rate. Very few living cases, less than ten, have been reported till now.
Databáze: OpenAIRE