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To the Editor: The report by Lee et al. (Aug. 18 issue)¹ leaves me curious. Partial holoprosencephaly was discovered on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in an 18-month-old girl who was severely dehydrated and "lethargic but otherwise normal." Was this child's diagnosis known at the time of her admission for dehydration? Was the child, in fact, a neurologically normal 18-month-old?

Marjorie Schulman, M.D.
Bronx Municipal Hospital Center
Bronx, NY 10461

References

1. Lee JH, Arcinue E, Ross BD. Organic osmolytes in the brain of an infant with hypernatremia. N Engl J Med 1994;331:439-442. [Free Full Text]

To the Editor: The diagnosis of partial holoprosencephaly was not known at the time of admission, but was discovered during the preliminary MRI performed as part of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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