Unknown syndrome: abnormal facies, hypothyroidism, postaxial polydactyly, and severe retardation: a third patient.

نویسنده

  • D P Cavalcanti
چکیده

Young and Simpson in 1987 and Fryns and Moerman in 1988 each reported a case of a new unknown syndrome with hypothyroidism, severe global retardation, and abnormal facies, including microcephaly, blepharophimosis, bulbous nose, thin upper lip, low set ears, and micrognathia. A male infant with a similar pattern of malformations and postaxial polydactyly is reported here.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of medical genetics

دوره 26 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1989