Facial dysmorphia

Classification according to ICD-10
Q87.0	Congenital malformation syndromes with predominant involvement of the face
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

A facial dysmorphia is the face in question dysmorphia , which is a deviation from the normal facial anatomy. It can occur in isolation in otherwise inconspicuous people, often without disease value, or in the context of genetically determined syndromes .

Mostly there are deviations in the interpupillary distance , the position of the eyebrows , the position of the eyelid axis , the position and shape of the auricles , the shape of the nose , the chin and the relationship between the upper and lower jaw .

The most common facial abnormalities syndromes are:

• Turner Syndrome
• Fetal alcohol syndrome
• congenital syphilis
• Cat Scream Syndrome (Cri-du-chat)
• Laurence-Moon-Biedl-Bardet syndrome
• BMRS type Say-Barber-Biesecker-Young-Simpson
• Aarskog-Scott syndrome
• DiGeorge syndrome
• Rubella embryo fetopathy
• Noonan's Syndrome

A broad head is found in the Apert syndrome , a flat face in the Conradi-Hünermann syndrome .

Facial asymmetries can occur in Goldenhar syndrome or Larsen syndrome .

A triangular face shape is described in osteogenesis imperfecta , pterygium syndrome and Silver-Russell syndrome .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on facial dysmorphism in the Flexikon , a wiki of the DocCheck company
2. ↑ Embryology.ch
3. ^ Right Diagnosis
4. ↑ F. Hefti: Pediatric Orthopedics in Practice . Springer 1998, p. 647, ISBN 3-540-61480-X .

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