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Endemic cretinism

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

A clinical syndrome of intellectual disability, spastic-rigid motor disorder and deaf-mutism strongly associated with low maternal thyroid hormone levels during pregnancy and with severe periconceptional iodine deficiency. 

See Cerebral palsy, Iodine, Iodine deficiency

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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