Dental and cranio-facial aspects of Williams Syndrome
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Williams Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by a hemizygote micro-deletion mapped to the long arm of chromosome 7.The main symptoms are a distinctive facial appearance, psychomotor retardation with friendly behaviour and cardiovascular malformations. This case report describes the anomalies of the cranio-facial complex and the cephalometric aspects which are characteristic of this syndrome,
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تاریخ انتشار 2007