Medicina, Vol. 46 No. 1, 2010.
Pregledni rad
Clinical dysmorphology and developmental anomalies
Nina Pereza
; Zavod za biologiju i medicinsku genetiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Saša Ostojić
; Zavod za biologiju i medicinsku genetiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Ljiljana Zergoller-Čupar
; Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Miljenko Kapović
; Zavod za biologiju i medicinsku genetiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Borut Peterlin
; Klinični inštitut za medicinsku genetiku, KC Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Sažetak
Determination of diagnosis in children and adults with dysmorphic clinical features, multiple congenital anomalies and/or mental retardation, as well as understanding their etiology and pathogenesis enables the prediction of the course of congenital disorders, direction of clinical analysis, genetic counselling and selection of proper therapy. Dysmorphology is the study of patterns of human growth, development and congenital structural anomalies and is one of the core areas of clinical genetics. It implies the understanding of clinical features of genetic disorders, their molecular etiology and pathogenesis. A dysmorphic feature is a medical term referring to any physical feature which is not typical for people of certain age and ethnical group and is the consequence of abnormal morphogenesis. Studies of these developmental anomalies have contributed to the current understandings of genetic etiology of normal human growth and development as well as discovery of causative genes and mechanisms through which they affect normal embryogenesis. We present a concise review of developmental anomalies and clinical approach to people with structural developmental anomalies.
Ključne riječi
child; congenital anomalies; genetics; malformations; structural anomalies; syndromes
Hrčak ID:
48832
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.3.2010.
Posjeta: 10.553 *