Article
[Proteus syndrome. Expansion of the phenotype. Apropos of 3 pediatric cases].
Phlebologie - 1 Jan 2000
Hulsmans R F, Schrander-Stumpel C R, Koopman R J, Hoorntje T M, Starink T M
Abstract excerpt
In 1979 Cohen et Hayden and in 1983 Wiedemann et al. delineated a syndrome consisting of partial gigantism of the hands and/or feet, nevi, hemihypertrophy, subcutaneous tumors, macrocephaly or other skull anomalies and possible accelerated growth and visceral affections. Hitherto the literature pertaining to this syndrome consists of somewhat more than 100 cases of which some, that have been described previously...
Topics
- Angiodysplasia
- Child, Preschool
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Heart Neoplasms
- Hemangioma
- Humans
- Infant
- Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome
- Male
- Phenotype
- Proteus Syndrome