Curiosa paediatrica X: precocious sternebral fusion
James, T.
South African Medical Journal 69(6): 389-390
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574 PMID: 3083517 Document Number: 270649
The few reported cases of precocious sternebral fusion occurring in early childhood appear always to have been associated with other congenital physical abnormalities. The instance presented here was clinically without such association and its precocious appearance cannot be attributed to an aberrant embryological polyvalent induction.