title: Pycnodysostosis with Heterozygous beta-thalassemia.
abstract: A 6-year follow-up of a Greek girl with pycnodysostosis associated with heterozygous beta-thalassemia is reported. Active rickets in infancy was superimposed on pycnodysostosis. In the family the autosomal recessive disease, pycnodysostosis, appeared in two of three siblings in combination with the autosomal dominant disease, thalassemia minor.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010022:Osteopetrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics*; D011859:Radiography; D013789:Thalassemia / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics*