Article
Diaphanospondylodysostosis: Full Case Report with Novel Pathogenic BMPER Mutation.
Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society - 1 Jan 2000
Arredondo Montero Javier, Bronte Anaut Mónica, Ruiz de Azúa Yerani, Morales Garofalo Lourdes
Abstract excerpt
Diaphanospondylodysostosis is an extremely rare, recessively inherited, perinatal lethal skeletal disorder associated with BMPER gene mutations. Clinically it is characterized by defects in costovertebral ossification, absent ribs, hypertelorism, short nose with depressed nasal bridge, low-set ears, and short neck. At the extraosseous level, the most frequent pathologic finding is nephroblastomatosis with...
Topics
- Carrier Proteins
- Child
- Craniofacial Abnormalities
- Dysostoses
- Female
- Humans
- Mutation
- Pregnancy
- Ribs
- Spine
