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Journal Title: Eurasian Journal of Family Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
CASE A 12 year old girl presented to Refugies Health Center with low back pain and abnormality of chest form. She had an eye operation that they couldn’t describe well. On her physical examination: she was above-average height, and had disproportionately long, slender limbs with thin, weak wrists and long fingers and toes (Fig 1,2). Beside a heart murmur (systolic and diastolic, 3-4/6), she had abnormal lateral curvature of the spine (scoliosis), thoracic lordosis, protrusion (pectus carinatum) of the sternum (Figure 3,4), abnormal joint flexibility, a high-arched palate with crowded teeth and an overbite (Figure 5,6), flat feet, hammer toes. She had speech disorders resulting from symptomatic high palates and small jaws. She had a family history of consanguineous marriages (parents and first degree relatives) also she describes two family members with similar apperarence and complaints.
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Dilek Toprak, Mohammad Alkhobbi
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