Article
VACTERL or MURCS association in a girl with neurenteric cyst and identical thoracic malformations in the father: a case of gonosomal mosaicism?
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Aug 1992
Orstavik K H, Steen-Johnsen J, Foerster A, Fjeld T, Skullerud K, Lie S O
Abstract excerpt
We report on a female infant with lethal congenital malformations including extreme hydrocephalus due to aqueductal stenosis, vertebral segmentation anomalies, fused costae, anal atresia, renal dysplasia, and bicornuate uterus with a double blind vagina. The VACTERL and the MURCS associations are possible diagnoses. Her father had a neurenteric cyst in infancy. He has identical vertebral and costal malformations...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Adult
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Humans
- Hydrocephalus
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Mosaicism
- Phenotype
- Spina Bifida Occulta
