Branchio-oto-renal syndrome: incidence in three generations of a family

J Pediatr Surg. 1993 Dec;28(12):1527-9. doi: 10.1016/0022-3468(93)90086-z.

Abstract

It is well known that the persistence of alterations in the normal embryological development of branchial arches can lead to preauricular and cervical fistulas within a family. However, until 1970, there were no reports of dysplasia affecting the branchial, otic, and renal systems (BOR syndrome) with dominant autosomic inheritance. The authors report on a family with BOR syndrome of different expressivity in three generations, and describe an unusual case of bilateral fistulas of the first and second branchial arches in a newborn.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics*
  • Branchioma / epidemiology
  • Branchioma / genetics*
  • Deafness / genetics
  • Ear / abnormalities*
  • Female
  • Genes, Dominant*
  • Head and Neck Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Head and Neck Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Kidney / abnormalities*
  • Male
  • Pedigree
  • Syndrome