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Images in medicine
Focal cortical dysplasia and heterochromia of the iris
  1. Sujan T Reddy1,
  2. Giridhar P Kalamangalam2
  1. 1Department of Neurology, UTHSC-Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
  2. 2Department of Neurology, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Giridhar P Kalamangalam, Department of Neurology, University of Texas, 6431 Fannin Street, MSB 7.102, Houston TX 77030, USA; Giridhar.P.Kalamangalam{at}uth.tmc.edu

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2015-133809

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    • Correction notice This article has been corrected since it was published Online First. The authorship order has been updated.

    • Contributors GPK: idea of the clinical image; obtaining images, patient consent and manuscript editing. STR: writing manuscript, compiling and referencing for the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.