Two sibs with anophthalmia and pulmonary hypoplasia (the Matthew-Wood syndrome)
✍ Scribed by Seller, Mary J.; Davis, Teresa B.; Fear, Claudine N.; Flinter, Frances A.; Ellis, Ian; Gibson, A. G.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 10 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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✦ Synopsis
We describe two sibs with pulmonary hypoplasia and anophthalmia; one also had a number of other malformations. Only one other broadly similar case could be found in the literature, and it was an isolated occurrence.
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