Joubert syndrome: a clinical and pathological description of an affected male and a female fetus from the same sibship

Am J Med Genet. 1991 Jul 1;40(1):100-4. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320400121.

Abstract

A severely retarded male child with Joubert syndrome is described. He had severe neurological anomalies including Dandy-Walker malformation, hypoplasia of the corpus callosum, occipital meningo-encephalocele, and bilateral coloboma of the optic nerve with retrobulbar cystic mass. This is the first male described so far with both coloboma and other midline defects. A detailed autopsy on an affected female fetus from the mother's second pregnancy is presented.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / embryology
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics*
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / pathology
  • Abortion, Induced
  • Brain / embryology
  • Brain / pathology
  • Dandy-Walker Syndrome / embryology
  • Dandy-Walker Syndrome / genetics*
  • Dandy-Walker Syndrome / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Pregnancy