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Morquio-Ullrich syndrome

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Typical symptoms and signs of Morquio’s syndrome; plus one or more features usually associated with Hurler’s syndrome, typically hepatosplenomegaly; corneal opacity; deafness, granulation in leukocytes.

This terminology was proposed by the German paediatrician Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann (1915-) to distinguish these patients from those with classic Morquio’s syndrome.

The eponym is unnecessary since it appears that in all patients with Morquio’s syndrome, if they survive to adolescence, these extraskeletal manifestations develop.

Bibliography

  • H.-R. Wiedemann:
    Ausgedehnte und allgemeine erbliche Bildungs- und Wachstumsfehler des Knockengerüstes.
    Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde, Berlin, 1954, 102: 136-140.
  • Ignacio Ponseti, G.K. VonNoorden, H. Zellweger:
    Ocular Findings in Morquio-Ullrich's Disease.
    Archives of Ophthamology, Chicago, October, 1960 (with)64:585-591,
  • Ignacio Ponseti, H. Zellweger, V. Pedrini, F. Stamler, G. VonNoorden:
    Morquio-Ullrich's Disease.
    The Journal of Pediatrics, St. Louis October 1961, 59: 549-561.

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