title: [Cleft palate and Williams syndrome].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cleft palate is not one of the malformations in the Williams-Beuren syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report the case of a female patient affected by Williams syndrome, presenting with a cleft palate. The diagnosis of Williams-Beuren syndrome was confirmed by genetic analysis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cleft palate with a Williams syndrome can be fortuitous given these two affections' frequency. The prevalence of Williams syndrome is 1/7500 to 1/10,000 births and palatine division 1/2000 to 1/2500. Cleft palate might also be a rare entity of Williams syndrome. We cannot be sure that the two are linked.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie maxillofaciale, stomatologie et chirurgie plastique de la face, Hôtel-Dieu, CHU de Nantes, 1, place Alexis-Ricordeau, 44000 Nantes, France. clemvincent@free.fr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vincent
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Mercier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: David
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000150:complications*; D019066:Facies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018980:Williams Syndrome / Q000150:complications*