Article
Stickler syndrome: an underdiagnosed disease. Report of a family.
Bulletin de la Societe belge d'ophtalmologie - 1 Jan 2011
De Keyzer T H W, De Veuster I, Smets R-M E
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To report a family diagnosed with Stickler syndrome. To emphasize that early recognition of patients with Stickler syndrome could improve the visual outcome. METHODS: Case report. RESULTS: A 14 year old girl of Mahgrebian origin presented with a longstanding subtotal RRD in the right eye. Subsequently 6 family members in 3 generations have been identified with the same COL2A1 mutation. 4 eyes lost...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Arthritis
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Collagen Type II
- Connective Tissue Diseases
- Female
- Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
