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Severe congenital morphological anomalies of adrenal development are rare (Warkany 1971). They occur mainly in cases of serious vertebral malformations and deformities of the lower half of the body. Thus, midline fusions giving a single ‘butterfly’ or ‘horseshoe’ gland above the aorta occur in some embryos and neonates with central nervous system defects such as spina bifida or meningomyelocoele (Koenig 1972; Bell 1979). Histology of these glands is essentially normal, except where CNS defects include anencephalia, when the gland is hypoplastic (p. 272).
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Neville, A.M., O’Hare, M.J. (1982). Congenital Defects of Adrenal Development. In: The Human Adrenal Cortex. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1317-1_22
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