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Portrait of the index patient.
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Our index case, a 2-year-old girl, is the 7th living child born to her mother (Figure 1).
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Chest x-ray of case 3 who died of Fallot's tetralogy. The picture exhibits vertebral and rib malformations and fusions along with thoracic scoliosis.
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He also had vertebral malformations such as hemivertebrae, rib fusions and thoracic scoliosis (Figure 2).
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