title: Silver-russell syndrome: a case report.
abstract: A 15-year-old male boy with hemihypertrophy (left side) of the body was admitted in the hospital with the history of repeated attacks of convulsion. The patient was diagnosed as Silver-Russell syndrome on clinical ground. Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a very rare genetic disorder that appears no later than early childhood. This is usually characterized by asymmetry in the size of the two halves or other parts of the body. Silver-Russell Syndrome occurs mostly in isolated cases because of sporadic genetic changes (mutations) for no apparent reason. For lack of facilities we were not able to do genetic study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram, Wardha, (Maharashtra), India. drsunilkr_med@yahoomail.co.in.
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Ap
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Sachin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.forename: Sindu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chandran