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Costello syndrome

How is it diagnosed?

A number of syndromes including Cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome (CFC), Noonan syndrome, Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome (SGB) and storage diseases especially Mucopolysaccharidosis (see entry, Mucopolysaccharide diseases and associated diseases), share certain features with CS and therefore need to be excluded in the process of making a diagnosis.

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Medical text written August 2004 by Contact a Family. Approved August 2004 by Dr Bronwyn Kerr, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK.

 

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