Compromise of the spinal canal in Proteus syndrome

✍ Scribed by Skovby, Flemming ;Graham, John M. ;Sonne-Holm, Stig ;Cohen, M. Michael

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 459 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-7299
• DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320470516

✦ Synopsis

We report on 2 children with spinal stenosis and neurologic sequelae. They illustrate the 2 ways in which spinal compromise may develop in Proteus s y n d r o m e v e r t e b r a l anomalies or tumor infiltration. In one patient, spinal stenosis resulted from an angular kyphoscoliosis. In the other, cord compression resulted from infiltration of a paraspinal, intrathoracic angiolipoma.