Journal of Family and Reproductive Health (Mar 2013)

Roberts-SC Phocomelia Syndrome (Pseudothalidomide Syndrome): A Case Report.

  • Ilana Naghi,
  • Babak Behnam

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1

Abstract

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A 39-year-old pregnant woman at 38 weeks of gestation was referred with labor pain to a hospital. She had consanguinity with her husband. A female newborn had multiple craniofacial anomalies and phocomelia in right upper limb. The disease locus was assigned to chromosome17q21. Four days later, infant died of cardiopulmonary arrest.

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