Benjamin syndrome
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Benjamin Syndrome (or Benjamin anemia) is a type of multiple congenital anomaly/mental retardation (MCA/MR) syndrome. It is characterized by hypochromic anemia with mental deficiency and various craniofacial and other anomalies.[1] It can also include heart murmur, dental caries and splenic tumors.[2]
It was first described in the medical literature in 1911.[3] Symptoms include megalocephaly, external ear deformities, dental caries, micromelia, hypoplastic bone deformities, hypogonadism, hypochromic anemia with occasional tumors, and mental retardation.[4]
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- Benjamin syndrome via National Library of Medicine.
- Anemia neonatal (Spanish)
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- ↑ Benjamin E (1911). Über eine selbständige Form der Anämie im frühen Kindersalter. Verh Deut Ges Kinderh, 1911,119-24.
- ↑ Jablonski, Stanley (1991). Jablonski's dictionary of syndromes & eponymic diseases. Krieger Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-89464-224-1
