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An introduction to standardized clinical nomenclature for dysmorphic features: the Elements of Morphology project

Human structural malformations (anomalies or birth defects) have an enormous and complex range of manifestations and severity. The description of these findings can be challenging because the variation of many of the features is continuous and only some of them can be objectively assessed (that is,...

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Autor principal: Biesecker, Leslie G
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20920337
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-8-56
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description Human structural malformations (anomalies or birth defects) have an enormous and complex range of manifestations and severity. The description of these findings can be challenging because the variation of many of the features is continuous and only some of them can be objectively assessed (that is, measured), among other factors. An international group of clinicians resolved to develop a set of terms that could be used to describe human structural malformations, under the general project name 'Elements of Morphology'. Here, the background to the project, progress to date, and the practical implementation of the terminology in research reporting is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29588812010-10-22 An introduction to standardized clinical nomenclature for dysmorphic features: the Elements of Morphology project Biesecker, Leslie G BMC Med Commentary Human structural malformations (anomalies or birth defects) have an enormous and complex range of manifestations and severity. The description of these findings can be challenging because the variation of many of the features is continuous and only some of them can be objectively assessed (that is, measured), among other factors. An international group of clinicians resolved to develop a set of terms that could be used to describe human structural malformations, under the general project name 'Elements of Morphology'. Here, the background to the project, progress to date, and the practical implementation of the terminology in research reporting is discussed. BioMed Central 2010-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2958881/ /pubmed/20920337 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-8-56 Text en Copyright ©2010 Biesecker; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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An introduction to standardized clinical nomenclature for dysmorphic features: the Elements of Morphology project
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2958881/
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