title: Curiosa paediatrica X: precocious sternebral fusion.
abstract: 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.
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authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: James
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic; D013249:Sternum / Q000002:abnormalities*