Gastroschisis

Gastroschisis is marked by viscera protruding, without a covering sac, from the fetal abdomen on the right lateral base of the umbilicus. It is due to defective embryo growth and other malformations are only exceptionally associated.

Facial paralysis

Complete loss of ability to move facial muscles innervated by the facial nerve (i.e., the seventh cranial nerve).


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PMID (PMCID)
19938094
 MIXED_SAMPLE Infant, Newborn
Overlap of Moebius and oromandibular limb hypogenesis syndrome with gastroschisis and pulmonary hypoplasia.
Brockmann K, Backes H, Auber B, Kriebel T, Stellmer F, Zoll B.
Am J Med Genet A. 2009;149A(12):2832-7.
In this report we describe a girl with gastroschisis and pulmonary hypoplasia in addition to features of Moebius syndrome comprising hypoplasia of the tongue and mandible, brachydactyly of halluces, cranial nerve palsies with bilateral facial paralysis and an inability to execute horizontal eye movements.