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An 8-year-old Syrian girl came to our department with fever and severe skin lesions over her legs. The initial diagnoses were post-traumatic burns due to explosives, complicated by sepsis and unsuccessful initial management in Syria. It became apparent that the true diagnosis was a rare genetic disease, leukocyte adhesion defect (LAD) type I complicated by a severe skin disease pyoderma gangrenosum. Bone marrow transplantation was arranged in an appropriate centre.
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Luder, A. (2017). Things Aren’t Always What They Seem: The Case of Hala. In: Zarka, S., Lerner, A. (eds) Complicated War Trauma and Care of the Wounded . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53339-1_6
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