Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud (Mar 2010)

Morquio syndrome. Case report

  • Ivonne Alejandra Meza,
  • Jaime Álvarez-Soler

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 41 – 43

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We present a case of a Morquio syndrome, it is a disease transmitted by inheritance autosomic recessive, is systemic disease, mainly affects cartilage, clinically there is deficiency of Galactose-6-sulfatase and beta-galactosidase enzymes, clinically is observed disharmonic growth of bones and coarse fascies.

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