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Abstract:
We report on two brothers with chronic congenital lymphoedema. Besides the oedemas of limbs we found an unusual facial appearance, abnormalities of external genitals as a deformation sequence resulting from intrauterine oedemas and intestinal lymphoedema. This X-linked or autosomal recessive trait may be a new entity, to be differentiated from other genetic lymphoedema syndromes, the so-called familial protein-losing enteropathy, and dominantly inherited intestinal lymphangiectasia. A prominent sign of the syndrome is chemosis and injection of conjunctiva.
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