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One-year-old female presented with alopecia, prominent scalp veins, sclerotic skin, and deformed joints (Figs. 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, and 12.5).
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El-Darouti, M.A. (2013). Infantile Alopecia, Characteristic Facies and Sclerosed Atrophic Limbs. In: Challenging Cases in Dermatology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4249-2_12
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