Thanatophoric dysplasia: case report of an autopsy complemented by postmortem computed tomographic study

• Main Authors: Éber Emanuel Mayoral (Author), Regina Schultz (Author), Sérgio Rosemberg (Author), Lisa Suzuki (Author), Luiz Antonio Nunes de Oliveira (Author), Fernando Uliana Kay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Thanatophoric dysplasia (TD) is one of the most common lethal skeletal dysplasias, which was first designated as thanatophoric dwarfism and described in 1967. The authors report a case of a Caucasian girl with TD, born to a 31-year-old woman without comorbidities. The newborn presented respiratory d...