Cochlear implantation and clinical features in patients with Noonan syndrome and Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines caused by a mutation in PTPN11.

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2017.04.024

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Cochlear implantation and clinical features in patients with Noonan syndrome and Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines caused by a mutation in PTPN11.

International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology - 1 Jun 2017

van Nierop Josephine W I, van Trier Dorothée C, van der Burgt Ineke, Draaisma Jos M T, Mylanus Emmanuel A M, Snik Ad F, Admiraal Ronald J C, Kunst Henricus P M

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Existing literature only reports a few patients with Noonan syndrome (NS) and Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines (NSML) who underwent cochlear implantation (CI). The present study describes four NS patients and one NSML patient with a PTPN11 mutation. They all had severe to profound hearing loss, and they received a CI. The age at which the CI surgery occurred ranged from 1 to 13 years old, and the...

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