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Two male infants with a pseudo-hydrocephalic progeroid syndrome with natal teeth are compared with two very similar female cases reported in the literature and interpreted as congenital progeria. All these cases may represent a separate entity, a previously unrecognized genetic progeroid syndrome.
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Wiedemann, H.R. An unidentified neonatal progeroid syndrome: Follow-up report. Eur J Pediatr 130, 65–70 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00441901
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00441901