A new case of the acromegaloid facial appearance syndrome?
An apparently new case of the acromegaloid facial appearance syndrome is reported. The main clinical findings were coarse facies and thickened lips, oral mucosa and upper eyelids. The patient also had macrocephaly with an arachnoid cyst in the right middle fossa, an anomaly not previously described in association with this syndrome.
da-Silva
E O
EO
Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Instituto Materno-Infantil de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Duarte
A R
AR
Andrade
E J
EJ
Furtado
G J
GJ
D000172:Acromegaly / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D016080:Arachnoid Cysts / Q000150:complications; D019066:Facies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013577:Syndrome