Partial failure of sternal fusion in an adolescent.
We describe the case of an adolescent girl who had an isolated cranial sternal cleft without any associated abnormalities; the cleft had been well tolerated since her birth. A review of the literature shows that such cases are uncommon. In such cases, surgery is only for cosmetic reasons.
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Service de Radiologie, Hôpital Jeanne d'Arc, Toul, France.
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Lê
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Phan
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Nguyen
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Chen
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D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013249:Sternum / Q000002:abnormalities*