Marfan syndrome: a case report and pictorial essay

We report a case of Marfan syndrome (MFS) in a South African patient, which is extraordinary because of the large constellation of clinical, radiological and vascular anomalies in a single patient. A literature search from 1950 to date did not show a similar report of such extensive clinical charact...

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Autores principales: Naidoo, Poobalan, Ranjith, Naresh, Zikalala, Zuzile, Mahoney, Scott, Ho, Kevin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6235474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30455800
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.171.14363
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author Naidoo, Poobalan
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spelling pubmed-62354742018-11-19 Marfan syndrome: a case report and pictorial essay Naidoo, Poobalan Ranjith, Naresh Zikalala, Zuzile Mahoney, Scott Ho, Kevin Pan Afr Med J Case Report We report a case of Marfan syndrome (MFS) in a South African patient, which is extraordinary because of the large constellation of clinical, radiological and vascular anomalies in a single patient. A literature search from 1950 to date did not show a similar report of such extensive clinical characteristics of MFS. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6235474/ /pubmed/30455800 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.171.14363 Text en © Poobalan Naidoo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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