Fibrotic eye muscles, Axenfeld anomaly, flat face, and mild developmental retardation: A new example of the Chitty syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 205-208

  Van Daele, Sabine G ^a   Van Coster, Rudy N ^a   Meire, Françoise ^a   Smets, Anne M ^a   Leroy, Jules G ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Axenfeld anomaly; deficient eye movement; fibrotic eye muscles; Mobius sequence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CASE REPORT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MOEBIUS SYNDROME; MYOFIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; SYNDROME;

GENETTA;

EID: 2742610400     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19961028)65:3<205::AID-AJMG6>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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