Floating-Harbor syndrome and intramedullary spinal cord ganglioglioma: Case report and observations from the literature

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2265-2269

  Nelson, Rachel A ^a   McNamara, Michelle ^b   Ellis, William ^b   Stein Wexler, Rebecca ^a   Moghaddam, Billur ^b   Zwerdling, Theodore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed bone age; Floating Harbor syndrome; Ganglioglioma; Mental retardation; Short stature; Speech delay; Spinal cord neoplasms

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FLOATING HARBOR SYNDROME; GLIOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORBID OBESITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE; SPEECH DISORDER; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STEROID THERAPY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; GANGLIOGLIOMA; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME;

EID: 70349495295     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33014     Document Type: Article

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