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R T Erickson

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Thalassemia diagnosed through facial distortion.

Thalassemia is an inherited genetic disorder of hemoglobin synthesis characterized by a reduction of either alpha or beta chains of globin. Typical features of patients with thalassemia are skeletal modifications, particularly in the skull and in the malar bone. This report describes a patient who was originally found to have an oro-facial deformity and subsequently demonstrated clinical and laboratory findings consistent with those recorded for thalassemia intermedia.

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