Oral-Facial-Digital Syndrome Type II (Mohr Syndrome) in Palestine

Oro-facial-digital syndrome type II (Mohr-Claussen syndrome) SWISS SOCIETY OF NEONATOLOGY

Mohr-Claussen syndrome or oro-facial-digital syndrome (OFDS) type-II.

The Mohr-Claussen syndrome or oro-facial-digital syndrome type II (OFD-II)] is characterised by tongue lobulation, midline cleft lip, high arched or cleft palate, broad nasal root with wide bifid nasal tip, hypertelorism, micrognathia, brachydactyly, syndactyly and polydactyly, bilateral reduplicated hallux, conductive hearing loss and normal intelligence. In view of the different modes of inhe...

Oral-facial digital syndrome type 1.

The oral-facial-digital syndrome type 1 is characterized by following abnormalities: pseudocleft of the upper lip, tongue lobulation, hamartomata on the tongue, alveolar frenulae, and clefting of the soft palate. We report a 9-month-old girl who was referred to our clinic due to facial dysmorphology in addition to cleft palate and multiple masses on the tongue which resulted in feeding problems...

Oral-facial-digital syndrome.

Papillon-Leage and Psaume in 1954 reported a 'hereditary malformation of the buccal mucous membrane, and abnormal frena' (Papillon-Leage and Psaume, 1954a). Other French and German authors have since published full accounts of this condition, and Gorlin and Pindborg (1964) have summarized current knowledge of the syndrome in a recent textbook. They described it under the heading of orodigitofac...

Oro-facial-digital syndrome type II.

Oro-facial-digital syndrome type II (OFD-II) is characterized by frenulated tongue, midline cleft lip, high arched or cleft palate, micrognathia, syndactyly and polydactyly, bilateral reduplicated hallux, conductive hearing loss, choroidal coloboma and normal intelligence. There are nine forms of oro-facial-digital syndromes with different modes of inheritance. A young female with features of o...