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Year : 2011 | Volume
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Waardenburg syndrome type I- a rare case report
Gurmit Singh1, Kunal Ahya2, Dhananjay Y Shrikhande1, Suhas Patil1, Apurva Desai2, Niranjan Bommisetti Kurukuti2, Sankalp Yadav3, Rajiv Girdhar2
1 Department of Pediatrics, Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, Maharashtra, India 2 Post Graduate Student, Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, Maharashtra, India 3 Medical Student, Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, Maharashtra, India
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Kunal Ahya Post Graduate Student, Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, Maharashtra India
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Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is an inherited autosomal dominant disorder characterized by varying degrees of hearing loss and pigmentary anomalies affecting the eye, hair, skin. It is a rare syndrome affecting about 1 in 42,000 individuals. We herein report a case of WS type I in an 8 day old neonate, which to the best knowledge of the authors is the youngest reported case in literature. |
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