title: [3 cases of Pierre Robin syndrome].
abstract: An account of the main features (micrognathia, glossoptosis and cleft palate) and aetiopathogenetic interpretation of Pierre Robin's syndrome, as well as the various types of treatment that have been employed, is followed by a description of 3 personal cases (all typical examples and without concomitant abnormalities). The presence of cleft palate in the grandmother and mother of one patient is seen as evidence in favour of the hereditary transmission of the disease. The more or less rapidly fatal outcome of all 3 cases, in spite of positional therapy, suggest that the prognosis for this syndrome is very poor, notwithstanding the more favourable opinion expressed by other writers.
authors.affiliation: Ospedale Civile S. Croce di Cuneo, Divisione Pediatrica.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spada
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ambrosiana
mesh_terms: D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010641:Phenotype; D010855:Pierre Robin Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics