We describe a patient with bilateral extreme microphthalmia with bilateral congenital glaucoma, bilateral medial oblique facial cleft ending in lid colobomas, bilateral stenosis of the choanae, bifid uvula, frontal encephalocele, and premature craniosynostosis. The cause is unknown, but the phenotyp
Confirmation of the colobomatous macrophthalmia with microcornea syndrome: Report of another family
β Scribed by Pallotta, Rosanna; Fusilli, Paola; Sabatino, Giuseppe; Verrotti, Alberto; Chiarelli, Francesco
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 9 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19980319)76:3<252::aid-ajmg9>3.0.co;2-s
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β¦ Synopsis
We report on the occurence of microcornea, coloboma, and macrophthalmia in 4 generations of an Italian family. The patients had no additional physical anomalies, were of normal intelligence, and had a normal karyotype. This condition has been reported in only 1 family [Bateman and
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