Ophthalmological, skeletal, and cardiac abnormalities in sibs born to consanguineous parents: A new syndrome?
โ Scribed by dos Santos, Rita de Cassia Stocco ;Castro, Nelson H. C. ;Ferraz, Oilita Pereira ;Walter-Moura, Janete ;Mustachi, Zan ;Pagnan, Nina A. B. ;Gollop, Thomaz R.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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โฆ Synopsis
We report on a sibship from a consanguineous couple consisting of one boy with anophthalmia, one boy with buphthalmos and multiple congenital skeletal, muscle, and cardiac abnormalities, and a stillborn girl with anophthalmia and cardiac and skeletal abnormalities. A possible new syndrome of auto-soma1 recessive inheritance and variable expressivity is discussed, comparing this report with others.
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