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We wish to present a patient in whom the diagnosis of Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome [1, 5] was established by renal ultrasonography and to report the previously undocumented renal sonographic findings in this syndrome.
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McCarten, K.M., Cleveland, R.H., Simeone, J.F. et al. Renal ultrasonography in Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome. Pediatr Radiol 11, 46–48 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00972044
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