title: Thurston syndrome: an uncommon disorder presenting with common abnormalities.
abstract: This article describes an infant who had a combination of malformations. The boy had a median cleft of the lip, cleft of the soft palate, microcephaly, and ulnar polydactyly of both hands and feet. All of these are relatively commonly encountered in any plastic surgical outpatient department. However, the combination of such abnormalities is encountered extremely rarely. Thurston syndrome is one of the several oral-facial-digital syndromes. A brief literature review of Thurston syndrome and salient features of oral-facial-digital syndromes are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India. jerryrjohn@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Jerry R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: Parmod
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Ramesh Kumar
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Sharma
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009958:Orofaciodigital Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery