Seckel syndrome with Morgagni hernia
Asan Onder1, Ozgur Cogulu, Aslihan Ekmekci
1Departments of Pediatrics Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey.
Clinical Dysmorphology
|June 7, 2007
Abstract:
Seckel syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease presenting with microcephalic dwarfism, mental retardation and facial and skeletal abnormalities. Morgagni hernia is quite rare, constituting 1-6% of all diaphragmatic hernias. It is asymptomatic, especially in childhood. Morgagni hernia has never been reported in patients with Seckel Syndrome. Here we report a 3-year-old boy diagnosed as having Seckel Syndrome with Morgagni hernia, which has to be considered during physical examination of patients.
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