Brief clinical report: an unusual bandlike web in an infant with lethal multiple pterygium syndrome

U G Froster-Iskenius; C Curry; M Philp; J G Hall

doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320300310

Brief clinical report: an unusual bandlike web in an infant with lethal multiple pterygium syndrome

Am J Med Genet. 1988 Jul;30(3):763-9. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320300310.

Authors

U G Froster-Iskenius¹, C Curry, M Philp, J G Hall

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

PMID: 3189397
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320300310

Abstract

We report on a patient with a lethal multiple pterygium syndrome who also had an unusual, bandlike web across one axilla and partial intestinal atresia. Umbilical cord wrapping with subsequent vascular compromise appears to be the most likely pathogenetic mechanism for the additional anomalies.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Abnormalities, Multiple / etiology
Abnormalities, Multiple / pathology*
Contracture / congenital*
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Male
Syndrome
Umbilical Cord / pathology