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Pediatr Int
January 2022
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.
Congenit Anom (Kyoto)
May 2021
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Acta Otorrinolaringol Esp (Engl Ed)
February 2020
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Navarra Hospital and Medical School, Pamplona, Spain. Electronic address:
Am J Med Genet A
April 2018
Department of Women's and Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Melnick-Needles syndrome (MNS; MIM 309350) is an X-linked skeletal dysplasia caused by mutations in FLNA. Females with the condition present with characteristic facial features, short stature, skeletal anomalies, including poorly modeled and sclerotic bones, and structural abnormalities such as cardiac and urological defects. Previously males were thought to present with either a mild phenotype compatible with life or a severe lethal presentation depending on the maternal phenotype.
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December 2017
Department of Anaesthesia, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Melnick-Needles syndrome (M-NS) is a rare genetic disorder which primarily affects skeletal developments. M-NS may also affect the cardiorespiratory and renal systems. A 35 kg patient presented complaining of abdominal pain.
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