Re-visiting the embryogenesis of the human lower lip: An overlooked paradigm

The rare opportunity to study a human fetus showing bilateral clefting of the lower lip along with other associated anomalies resembling those of the equally rare Pena-Shokeir phenotype prompts this report. The scarcity of reports on bilateral clefts of the lower lip has strengthened the conventiona...

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Main Authors: Heleni eVastardis, Meropi N. Spyropoulos, Alphonse R. Burdi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2012.00333/full