Langer-Giedion syndrome
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Syndrome characterized by a combination of mental retardation and a long list of physical abnormalities, including multiple extoses, peculiar facies, and loose redundant skin. Facial features include a bulbous nose with thickened septum and alae, wide prominent philtrum, thin upper lips, and small mandible. During first five years of life recurrent respiratory infections. One of the contiguous gene syndromes. Present from birth. Both sexes affected.
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Su di un caso di disostosi periferica associata con esostosi osteogeniche multiple ed ipossomia disuniforme disarmonica.
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Das tricho-rhino-phalangeale Syndrom.
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The thoracic-pelvic-phalangeal dystrophy.
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Langer-Giedion syndrome.
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