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Coronal Clival Cleft in CHARGE Syndrome: Fetal MRI Series

Sara Reis Teixeira, Carmen Cerron-Vela, Nahla Khalek, Renee Wright and Matthew T. Whitehead
American Journal of Neuroradiology May 2025, 46 (5) 1022-1028; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8609
Sara Reis Teixeira
aFrom the Department of Radiology (S.R.T., C.C.-V, M.T.W.), Division of Neuroradiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
bPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (S.R.T., N.K., M.T.W.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Carmen Cerron-Vela
aFrom the Department of Radiology (S.R.T., C.C.-V, M.T.W.), Division of Neuroradiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Nahla Khalek
bPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (S.R.T., N.K., M.T.W.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
cRichard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (N.K., R.W.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Renee Wright
cRichard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (N.K., R.W.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Matthew T. Whitehead
aFrom the Department of Radiology (S.R.T., C.C.-V, M.T.W.), Division of Neuroradiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
bPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (S.R.T., N.K., M.T.W.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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