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Images in neonatal medicine
Bronze baby syndrome: pictorial description of a rare condition
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Bronze baby syndrome (BBS) is an extremely rare dyschromia occurring in neonates with a raised conjugated bilirubin level under phototherapy treatment.1 Rubaltelli et al1 demonstrated it to be due to the phototransformation of Cu(II)-protoporphyrin upon irradiation,2 but BBS has never been pictorially described. We illustrate comprehensive visible findings of newborn …
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