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| Year : 2008 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 474-476 |
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Robinow syndrome
SS Suresh
Department of Orthopaedics Ibri Regional Referral Hospital, Ibri, Oman
Correspondence Address:
S S Suresh
PO Box 396, Ibri 516
Oman
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5413.43399 PMID: 19753239
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Robinow syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive mesomelic dwarfism with just more than 100 cases reported in the literature so far. The lower extremity is spared with skeletal deformity usually confined to the forearm, hand, and the dorsal spine. Diagnosis is made easily in the early childhood by the typical "fetal facies" appearance, which disappears to a certain extent as the patient grows. The author reports two cases of this entity with vertebral segmentation defects, rib fusion, and typical severe brachymelia and facial features. |
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