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THE SYNDROME OF MENTAL HANDICAP, CATARACTS, MUSCLE WASTING AND SKELETAL ABNORMALITIES: REPORT OF A SECOND CASE
Author(s) -
Collacott R. A.,
O'Malley B. P.,
Young I. D.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1986.tb01324.x
Subject(s) - mental handicap , child and adolescent psychiatry , medicine , norwegian , psychiatry , library science , family medicine , pediatrics , linguistics , philosophy , computer science
A severely mentally handicapped Caucasian male with cataracts, deafness, distal muscle wasting and skeletal abnormalities, including calcification of the pinnae, is described. The findings in this patient strongly resemble those in a male described in 1982 by Primrose, and it suggested that this unusual pattern of abnormalities constitutes a discrete entity, which we propose should be known as 'Primrose syndrome'.