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A case having multiple sagittal cleft or “butter-fly” vertebrae and hemivertebrae is presented. The record of such coincidence of two rare anomalies in one case could not be found in the literature. Roentgenological investigations of parents and siblings could possibly throw some more light on the case.
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Basu, S.N. Congenital anomalies of the vertebrae. Indian J Pediatr 25, 323–328 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02752919
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