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Bartenwerfer's syndrome
Associated persons:
Kurt Bartenwerfer
Description:
A complex malformation syndrome which is a variant of Morquio-Brailsford syndrome. It is characterized by disproportionate dwarfism, hypertelorism, high palate, mongoloid palpebral slant, broad nose, flat vertebrae, lordoscoliosis, flat feet, hip dislocation, and epiphyseal dysplasia. None or small intelligence defects.
Bibliography:
- H. Bartenwerfer:
Destruktive Epiphysenerkrankung bei zwei kindern von mongoloidem Aussehen.
Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie, Stuttgart, 1924, 43: 201-212.
- Stanley Jablonski:
Jablonski’s Dictionary of Syndromes & Eponymic diseases.
Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, 1991.
For Morquio-Brailsford syndrome, see under Luís Morquio, Uruguayan paediatrician, 1867-1935.
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