A Case of Marshall-Smith or Weaver Syndrome
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[A case of Marshall-Smith syndrome].
Marshall-Smith syndrome (MSS) is a rare clinical disorder, characterized by accelerated skeletal maturation, facial anomalies, failure to thrive and death in early infancy due to respiratory complications. We experienced the difficult airway case with MSS. A 4-year-old boy underwent tenosynovectomy for the snapping finger. Although his upper airway was diagnosed as almost normal on the fiber-op...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107688908201117