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Article: Minor Congenital Anomalies Can Be Sign of Congenital Syndrome.
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- February 15, 2000
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WAIKOLOA VILLAGE, HAWAII -- Minor congenital anomalies can be an important tip-off that mental retardation or another neurologic disorder in childhood is caused by a congenital syndrome rather than a problem that occurred during labor and delivery.
It's therefore critical that a child be examined by a clinical geneticist or dysmorphologist whenever malpractice litigation cites fetal distress or perinatal asphyxia as the cause of a childhood neurologic disorder, Dr. Aubrey Milunsky advised at a conference on obstetrics, gynecology, perinatal medicine, neonatology, and the law.
Minor malformations may not be obvious, and a primary care physician may not ...