Musculo-Skeletal Abnormalities in Patients with Marfan Syndrome
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Musculo-Skeletal Abnormalities in Patients with Marfan Syndrome
BACKGROUND A leptosomic body type is tall and thin with long hands. Marfanoid features may be familial in nature or pathological, as occurs in congenital contractual arachnodactyly (Beal's syndrome) and Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome mimicking some of the changes of Marfan syndrome, although not accompanied by luxation of lens and dissecting aneurysm of aorta. METHODS In this article we collect...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1179-5441,1179-5441
DOI: 10.4137/cmamd.s10279