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Giuseppe Roberto Burgio
Italian paediatrician, born April 30, 1919, Palermo, Sicily.
Associated eponyms:
Burgio's pseudodiastrophic dwarfism
A syndrome characterised by short-limb dwarfim, brevicollis, clubfoot, joint contractures and dislocations, cleft palate, and characteristic facies.
Biography:
Burgio is (2004) professor emeritus of paediatrics, University of Pavia.
We thank Andre Trombeta and Grace E. Jacobs for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- Giuseppe Roberto Burgio, Eliane Gluckman, Franco Locatelli:
Ethical reappraisal of 15 years of cord-blood transplantation.
The Lancet, January 18, 2003, 361 (Number 9353): 250-252.
- Franco Locatelli, Giuseppe Roberto Burgio:
Transplant of hematopoietic stem cells in childhood: where we are and where we are going.
Haematologica, Roma, 1998, 83: 550-563.
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