Fetal sodium valproate exposure causes Baller-Gerold syndrome phenotype: Both phenotypes in the same family

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 631-636

  Özdemir, Özmert M A ^a   Kiliç, Ilknur ^a   Özsari, Tamer ^a   Kiliç, B Alper ^a   Faivre, Laurence ^b   Aral, Bernard ^b   Gürses, Dolunay ^a   Semerci, C Nur ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Absence hypoplasia of thumb; Baller Gerold syndrome; Craniosynostosis; Maternal anti epileptic drugs; Polymastia; RECQL4; Trigonocephaly; Valproate syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; TECHNETIUM 99M; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARM MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BALLER GEROLD SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC BREAST; FEMALE; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; RADIUS APLASIA; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; UPPER EXTREMITY DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 76649122168     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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