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What if Ivemark had suggested the term “Syndrome of Visceral Symmetry with Asplenia” instead of “Asplenia, a Teratologic Syndrome of Visceral Heterotaxy”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

William A. Devine
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Pathology DepartmentChildren's Hospital of PittsburghOne Children's PlacePittsburgh, PA 15213 USATel. (412) 692 5647
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