A woman died last week at the age of 20 never aged!
Brooke Greenberg of Reisterstown, M.D., puzzled medical professionals for years because she still looked and acted like a toddler. Doctors eventually dubbed her extremely rare condition syndrome X
Her mother said she stopped aging the age of 5. She, on birth, arrived one month early at just 4 pounds with a rare condition anterior hip dislocation. She needed surgery because her dislocated hips pushed forward and put her legs In an awkward position, pediatrician Lawrence Pakula explained.
Until she died, she still had the appearance and the mental abilities of a toddler.
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