Os autores descrevem um caso clínico dum lactente com um síndrome polimalformativo que foi internado com um mês e meio de idade na enfermaria de Pediatria do Hospital Geral de Santo António por um síndrome de dificuldade respiratória. Ao exame clínico apresentava um síndrome polimalformativo com: assimetria da comissura labial com o choro, inserção baixa dos pavilhões auriculares e hemivértebras dorsais detecta...
Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is a disorder of growth regulation exhibiting somatic overgrowth and predisposition to paediatric tumours. With an incidence estimated at 1 in 13,700, it is caused by various epigenetic and/or genetic alterations associated with disturbances within two different 11p15 domains that are controlled by distinct imprinting control regions (ICR), ICR1 and ICR2. The majority of patien...
We report on a female patient who presented failure to thrive, laryngotracheomalacia, conductive deafness and facial dysmorphisms. A skeletal survey revealed thickening of the cranial vault, linear striations in the diametaphyses of all long bones and fan-like striations of the iliac bones. CT scan of the temporal bone showed thickening of the cranial base, sclerotic mastoids, abnormal ossicular fixation and st...
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