Clinical Significance/Associated Anomalies ( Marfan Syndrome)
12.1-year-old girl with funnel chest, asthenic constitution and arachnodactylia.
Marfan syndrome is clinically diagnosed by a combination of main and additional
pathologies among the following four groups: - constitution and skeletal anomalies; - eye pathologies; - cardiovascular lesions; - familiality.
In the presented girl the combination of a funnel chest (skeletal anomaly) with the visible asthenic constitution and the arachnodactylia must in any case raise the suspicion of Marfan syndrome (Carrel T et al: Schweiz Med Forum 46:1096,2003).
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