A Case of Pfeiffer Syndrome

Pfeiffer Syndrome is as rare as Apert syndrome in the Western population. This condition is very rare in the Asian population and has not been previously reported in Korea. The authors report with a review of literature the case of a newborn baby with Pfeiffer syndrome, manifested by bicoronal crani...

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Autores principales: Park, Moon Sung, Yoo, Jae Eon, Chung, Jaiho, Yoon, Soo Han
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16614535
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2006.21.2.374
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author Park, Moon Sung
Yoo, Jae Eon
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Yoon, Soo Han
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description Pfeiffer Syndrome is as rare as Apert syndrome in the Western population. This condition is very rare in the Asian population and has not been previously reported in Korea. The authors report with a review of literature the case of a newborn baby with Pfeiffer syndrome, manifested by bicoronal craniosynostosis, broad thumbs, and big toes. The infant also had bilateral syndactyly of the fingers and toes, mild proptosis, choanal hypoplasia and maxillary hypoplasia.
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spelling pubmed-27340252009-08-31 A Case of Pfeiffer Syndrome Park, Moon Sung Yoo, Jae Eon Chung, Jaiho Yoon, Soo Han J Korean Med Sci Case Report Pfeiffer Syndrome is as rare as Apert syndrome in the Western population. This condition is very rare in the Asian population and has not been previously reported in Korea. The authors report with a review of literature the case of a newborn baby with Pfeiffer syndrome, manifested by bicoronal craniosynostosis, broad thumbs, and big toes. The infant also had bilateral syndactyly of the fingers and toes, mild proptosis, choanal hypoplasia and maxillary hypoplasia. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2006-04 2006-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2734025/ /pubmed/16614535 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2006.21.2.374 Text en Copyright © 2006 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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