title: Constitutional del(5)(q23.3q31.1).
abstract: A 4-month-old male infant with muscular hypotonia, growth and psychomotor retardation, large low-set ears, hypoplastic genitalia, right hip luxation and bilateral equinovarus, was found to have a constitutional 46,XY,del(5)(q23.3q31.1) karyotype. From the comparison with 12 similar cases, a rather characteristic clinical phenotype emerges.
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000235:genetics*; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D002895:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007621:Karyotyping; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology; D008297:Male