Musculo-Skeletal Abnormalities in Patients with Marfan Syndrome

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BACKGROUND: A leptosomic body type is tall and thin with long hands. Marfanoid features may be familial in nature or pathological, as occurs in congenital contractual arachnodactyly (Beal's syndrome) and Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome mimicking some of the changes of Marfan syndrome, although not accompanied by luxation of lens and dissecting aneurysm of aorta. METHODS: In this article we collected eight patients...

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