Journal of Neonatology
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue: 4

Sternal malformation/vascular dysplasia or PHACES syndrome?

  • Author:
  • Prabhjeet Kaur, Paramjit Singh, Sadhbhavana Pandit
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 371 to 373

Department of Pediatrics, Government Multi Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh::-160 015, prabhpreet_ 021 @yahoo.com.

Abstract

We report a 1 month boy with absent manubrium sternii, hypopigmented dimple and coarctation of aorta. This combination of clinical features has bee described as incomplete presentation of the sterna malformation/vascular dysplasia syndrome. However. there is an overlap with features of PHACES syndrome The combination of clinical features presented in the case has not been mentioned in literature till date.

Keywords

arterial anomalies, cardiac anomalies, eye abnormalities, haemangiomas and PHACE posterior fossa malformations