Poland syndrome a rare congenital anomaly

Poland syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly classically consisting of unilateral hypoplasia of the sternocostal head of the pectoralis major muscle and ipsilateral brachysyndactyly. It was first described by Alfred Poland in 1840 and may occur with different gravity. Our patient is an eight-year-ol...

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Autores principales: Ibrahim, Aliyu, Ramatu, Abdallah, Helen, Akhiwu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339551
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6866.120824
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description Poland syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly classically consisting of unilateral hypoplasia of the sternocostal head of the pectoralis major muscle and ipsilateral brachysyndactyly. It was first described by Alfred Poland in 1840 and may occur with different gravity. Our patient is an eight-year-old Nigerian girl with left-sided anterior chest wall defect with no detectable structural heart abnormality but presented with repeated episodes of syncopal attacks following minor trauma to the anterior chest wall.
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spelling pubmed-38415632013-12-11 Poland syndrome a rare congenital anomaly Ibrahim, Aliyu Ramatu, Abdallah Helen, Akhiwu Indian J Hum Genet Case Report Poland syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly classically consisting of unilateral hypoplasia of the sternocostal head of the pectoralis major muscle and ipsilateral brachysyndactyly. It was first described by Alfred Poland in 1840 and may occur with different gravity. Our patient is an eight-year-old Nigerian girl with left-sided anterior chest wall defect with no detectable structural heart abnormality but presented with repeated episodes of syncopal attacks following minor trauma to the anterior chest wall. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3841563/ /pubmed/24339551 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6866.120824 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Human Genetics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3841563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24339551
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6866.120824
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