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Aplasia cutis congenita of scalp (ACCS) is a rare developmental anomaly. It has presented in children who have many concomitant anomalies. Large, deep defects can complicate by repeat local and systemic sepsis and life-threatening hemorrhage. In this paper, we describe, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of a newborn boy with ACCS and mye...
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