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Focal Dermal Hypoplasia (Goltz syndrome)

Background

Focal Dermal Hypoplasia: Goltz syndrome; Goltz-Gorlin syndrome

This is an inherited condition that involves many body systems but takes its name from patchy skin abnormalities.

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Medical text written March 2002 by Dr I K Temple, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Southampton University Hospital Trust, Southampton, UK. Last updated July 2006 by Professor RCM Hennekam, Professor of Clinical Dysmorphology, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.

 

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