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“La Monstrua Desnuda”: an artistic textbook representation of Prader–Willi syndrome in a painting of Juan Carreño de Miranda (1680)

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  1. Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic, and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    C. M. Oranges & D. J. Schaefer

  2. Clinic of Endocrinology, Diabetology, and Metabolism, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    M. Christ-Crain

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Oranges, C.M., Christ-Crain, M. & Schaefer, D.J. “La Monstrua Desnuda”: an artistic textbook representation of Prader–Willi syndrome in a painting of Juan Carreño de Miranda (1680). J Endocrinol Invest 40, 691–692 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40618-017-0639-5

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