Musculo-Skeletal Abnormalities in Patients with Marfan Syndrome | Zendy

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Musculo-Skeletal Abnormalities in Patients with Marfan Syndrome

Author(s) -

Ali Al Kaissi,

Elisabeth Zwettler,

Rudolf Ganger,

Simone Schreiner,

Klaus Klaushofer,

Franz Grill

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

clinical medicine insights arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.418

H-Index - 21

ISSN - 1179-5441

DOI - 10.4137/cmamd.s10279

Subject(s) - arachnodactyly , marfan syndrome , medicine , scoliosis , dysplasia , abnormality , natural history , proband , short stature , tall stature , surgery , genetics , psychiatry , mutation , gene , biology

A leptosomic body type is tall and thin with long hands. Marfanoid features may be familial in nature or pathological, as occurs in congenital contractual arachnodactyly (Beal's syndrome) and Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome mimicking some of the changes of Marfan syndrome, although not accompanied by luxation of lens and dissecting aneurysm of aorta.

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