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To the Editor: Brown et al. (Nov. 16 issue)¹ report on a newborn boy with hypotonia and present a list of diagnoses to consider in the floppy infant syndrome, including spinal cord disorders. However, spinal cord lesions caused by injuries and tumors are not mentioned. Kobayashi et al. recently described a case of intrauterine spinal cord injury and reviewed the literature.² We report on a boy born at term with muscular hypotonia, a bell-shaped chest, and respiratory distress with retractions after birth. He had a normal sucking reflex and normal eye motility. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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