Clinical Images: A Cloudy Skull—Hypophosphatasia as Reason for Copper-Beaten Skull

Neuropediatrics 2016; 47(06): 410-411
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1593532

Images in Neuropediatrics

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Martin Poryo

¹Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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Sascha Meyer

²Division of Neuropediatrics, Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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Regina Eymann

³Department of Neurosurgery, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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Umut Yilmaz

⁴Department of Neuroradiology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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Sogand Nemat

⁵Department of Conventional and Interventional Radiology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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Tilman Rohrer

⁶Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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