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Frontonasal Dysplasia with Severe Occipital Lobe Hypoplasia

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    Sunita Vegesna, Lakshmiprasanna Gutthi, Pundarikaksha Varanasi & T. P. Gandhi

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Vegesna, S., Gutthi, L., Varanasi, P. et al. Frontonasal Dysplasia with Severe Occipital Lobe Hypoplasia. Indian J Pediatr 81, 1133–1134 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-014-1429-0

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