Partial trisomy 9—further delineation of the phenotype
✍ Scribed by Smart, Ronald D. ;Viljoen, Denis L. ;Fraser, Brian ;Opitz, John M. ;Reynolds, James F.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 275 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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✦ Synopsis
A patient with partial trisomy 9 (47,XX,+9pter----q22.1) had bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, enophthalmos, severe micrognathia, small, apparently low-set ears, and dislocatable knees. The phenotypic findings are compared with those of other documented cases of total trisomy 9.
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