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Shah-Waardenburg Syndrome


Abdelhalim Mahmoudi
Mohamed Rami
Khalid Khattala
Aziz Elmadi
My Abderrahmane Afifi
Bouabdallah Youssef

Abstract

Shah-Waardenburg syndrome (SWS) is a neurocristopathy and is characterized by Hirschsprung's disease (HD), deafness, and depigmentation of hairs, skin, and iris. Is a very rare congenital disorder with variable clinical expression. This report describes a 4-day-old male newborn with Waardenburg's syndrome associated with aganglionosis of the colon and terminal ileum, and review the relevant literature for draws attention to the causal relationship between these two entities.

Pan African Medical Journal 2013; 14:60

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