PMID: 11928434Apr 4, 2002Paper

Syndromes 3. Velo-cardio-facial (VCF/Shprintzen) syndrome

Nederlands tijdschrift voor tandheelkunde
F A Beemer

Abstract

The clinical symptomatology of the velo-cardio-facial (VCF/Shprintzen) syndrome is briefly described. In VCF syndrome a microdeletion of chromosome 22q11.2 can be found, as well as in a number of other clinical entities, leading to the conclusion that it is probably better to speak of the 22q11.2 clinical spectrum.

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