Legg‐Calvé‐Perthes disease in a patient with Bardet‐Biedl syndrome: A case report of a novel MKKS/BBS6 mutation

Legg‐Calvé‐Perthes disease in a patient with Bardet‐Biedl syndrome: A case report of a novel MKKS/BBS6 mutation

Abstract This article reports a girl with Bardet‐Biedl syndrome (BBS) having a novel causative mutation who developed Legg‐Calvé‐Perthes disease (LCPD). There exists a possibility that the prognosis of LCPD had been adversely affected by the concomitant BBS.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kenichi Mishima, Atsushi Fujita, Seiji Mizuno, Masaki Matsushita, Tadashi Nagata, Yasunari Kamiya, Noriko Miyake, Naomichi Matsumoto, Shiro Imagama, Hiroshi Kitoh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-12-01
Series:Clinical Case Reports
Subjects:
Bardet‐Biedl syndrome
Legg‐Calvé‐Perthes disease
MKKS/BBS6 gene
osteochondrosis
surgical containment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3357

Internet

https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3357

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