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MULTIPLE CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES IN A NEWBORN BOY ASSOCIATED WITH MATERNAL USE OF FLUPHENAZINE ENANTHATE AND OTHER DRUGS DURING PREGNANCY
Author(s) -
DONALDSON G. L.,
BURY R. G.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1982.tb09428.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , fluphenazine , anterior fontanelle , hypertelorism , pediatrics , surgery , endocrinology , haloperidol , genetics , dopamine , biology , anatomy
. A boy was born with a short sloping forehead, wide metopic suture, persistent metopic fontanelle, telecanthus, ocular hypertelorism, nystagmoid eye movements, bilateral cleft lip and palate, imperforate anus, rectourethral fistula, bind scrotum and an unusual penis with hypospadias. The neutrophil polymorphs had numerous nuclear projections. The pregnancy was complicated by chronic maternal schizophrenia, severe toxaemia and maternal use of fluphenazine enanthate, dicyclomine hydrochloride, doxylamine succinate, pyridoxine hydrochloride and other drugs. Details of mother's illness, pregnancy and drug usage are presented with the clinical findings and investigations.