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Early Prenatal Ultrasound and Molecular Diagnosis of Apert Syndrome: Case Report with Postmortem CT-Scan and Chondral Plate Histology.
Fetal and pediatric pathology - 1 Apr 2022
Tonni Gabriele, Grisolia Gianpaolo, Baldi Maurizia, Bonasoni MariaPaola, Ginocchi Vladimiro, Rolo Liliam Cristine, Araujo Júnior Edward
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Background Apert syndrome is characterized by craniosynostosis, midface hypoplasia and symmetric syndactyly. Case report: A 36-year-old mother, G2P1 underwent an ultrasound scan at 19 week's gestation. There was craniosynostosis, brachi-turricephaly and bilateral hand syndactyly. Genomic DNA from amniocentesis revealed the mutation C758C>Gp. (Pro to Arg substitution) at 252 of the exon 8 of the FGFR2 encoding for...
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