Ocular coloboma and foetal valproate syndrome: Four further cases and a hypothesis for aetiology

Clinical Dysmorphology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 74-75

  Jackson, Adam ^a   Fryer, Alan ^c   Clowes, Virginia ^d   Clayton Smith, Jill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d EALING HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANKYLOGLOSSIA; ANTEVERTED NOSTRIL; BRACHYCEPHALY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLEFT PALATE; COLOBOMA; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRESS SYNDROME; EMBRYOPATHY; EPILEPSY; EYE EXAMINATION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; FETAL VALPROATE SYNDROME; FETUS MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; FOOT MALFORMATION; GASTROSTOMY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTELORISM; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; JAW MALFORMATION; LACRIMAL DUCT OCCLUSION; LANGUAGE DELAY; LEARNING DISORDER; LETTER; LIP MALFORMATION; MALE; MICROTIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUTH MALFORMATION; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MYOPIA; NEWBORN; NOSE MALFORMATION; OBESITY; OPTIC NERVE; OTITIS MEDIA; PALPEBRAL FISSURE; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHORT NOSE; SPEECH DELAY; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TALIPES EQUINOVARUS; TOE MALFORMATION; TORTICOLLIS; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; COLOBOMA; HUMANS; MALE; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84896331080     PISSN: 09628827     EISSN: 14735717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCD.0000000000000028     Document Type: Letter

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