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could be hairy cutaneous looking for occult spinal dysraphism or OSD - nm

Posted By: maybe on 2009-03-10
In Reply to: Exam of the spine reveals no s/l har-i-cu-tan-e-ous lesions. This is on a child. nm - Ortho doc

Subject: could be hairy cutaneous looking for occult spinal dysraphism or OSD - nm




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