Morquio's Syndrome: A Case Report of Two Siblings

Morquio syndrome or MPS IVA is a rare type of lysosomal storage disease associated with highly specific dental abnormalities. We present two siblings with enamel hypoplasia and skeletal abnormalities. A diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA was reached based on the clinical, radiographic, and...

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Autores principales: Muthukumar Ramalingam, Sathish, Srinivasan, Daya, ArunKumar, Sandhya, ChiriyanKandath, Joe Louis, Kaliamoorthy, Sriram
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28191355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6176372
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author Muthukumar Ramalingam, Sathish
Srinivasan, Daya
ArunKumar, Sandhya
ChiriyanKandath, Joe Louis
Kaliamoorthy, Sriram
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description Morquio syndrome or MPS IVA is a rare type of lysosomal storage disease associated with highly specific dental abnormalities. We present two siblings with enamel hypoplasia and skeletal abnormalities. A diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA was reached based on the clinical, radiographic, and dental findings of the patients. The dental findings are useful diagnostic aid for the early diagnosis of this debilitating disorder.
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spelling pubmed-52782052017-02-12 Morquio's Syndrome: A Case Report of Two Siblings Muthukumar Ramalingam, Sathish Srinivasan, Daya ArunKumar, Sandhya ChiriyanKandath, Joe Louis Kaliamoorthy, Sriram Case Rep Dent Case Report Morquio syndrome or MPS IVA is a rare type of lysosomal storage disease associated with highly specific dental abnormalities. We present two siblings with enamel hypoplasia and skeletal abnormalities. A diagnosis of mucopolysaccharidosis type IVA was reached based on the clinical, radiographic, and dental findings of the patients. The dental findings are useful diagnostic aid for the early diagnosis of this debilitating disorder. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5278205/ /pubmed/28191355 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6176372 Text en Copyright © 2017 Sathish Muthukumar Ramalingam et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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