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Severe congenital hypoglossia and micrognathia with other multiple birth defects
Author(s) -
Oulis Constantine J.,
Thornton John B.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of oral pathology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1600-0714
pISSN - 0904-2512
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1982.tb00167.x
Subject(s) - medicine , congenital disease , pediatrics , surgery
Severe congenital hypoglossia with the anterior two‐thirds of the tongue missing is a rare finding. This case report describes an infant 14 months of age who manifests this tongue anomaly along with other congenital malformations including an underdeveloped mandible, partial anodontia, enamel hypoplasia, situs inversus, dextrocardia, and asplenia. Only one other case similar to this case has been reported in the literature. There is no report of any case of severe congenital hypoglossia with asplenia. The etiology of this birth defect is only speculative at this time, but the mother of our patient was exposed to radiation from routine chest films during her first trimester of pregnancy.