Extending the overlap of three congenital overgrowth syndromes

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 375-378

  Coppin, Brian ^a   Moore, Isabella ^b   Hatchwell, Eli ^a  

^a PRINCESS ANNE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beckwith Wiedemann; Nephroblastomatosis; Overgrowth; Perlman; Simpson Golabi Behmel

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACE DYSMORPHIA; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MACROCEPHALY; MACROSOMIA; MALE; MICROPENIS; NEWBORN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PERLMAN SYNDROME; PORTAL VEIN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SIMPSON GOLABI BEHMEL SYNDROME; SPINE MALFORMATION;

EID: 0030950727     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1997.tb02494.x     Document Type: Article

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