"Jeune Syndrome" (Asphyxiating Thoracic Dystrophy)

1 October 1977

journal article
case report
Published by SAGE Publications in Clinical Pediatrics

Vol. 16 (10) , 903-907
https://doi.org/10.1177/000992287701601006

Abstract

Respiratory distress with congenital narrowing of the thorax in a baby with short-limbed dwarfism should suggest the rare, and often fatal, Jeune or in fantile thoracic dystrophy syndrome.

Keywords

DISTRESS
CONGENITAL
THORAX
JEUNE
FATAL
THORACIC DYSTROPHY
ASPHYXIATING THORACIC

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Dystrophic Thoraces and Infantile Asphyxia
Radiology, 1970
Thoracic dystrophy.
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1969
Thoracic-Pelvic-Phalangeal Dystrophy
Radiology, 1968
Infantile thoracic dystrophy—a variant of Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome
The Journal of Pediatrics, 1967