HEMIFACIAL MICROSOMIA AND ABNORMAL CHROMOSOME-22

We report on partial dup(22q), growth deficiency, and the facioauricul overtebral sequence including hemifacial microsomia, cleft lip and pal ate, preauricular tags, and hearing loss in one patient. No endocrine or systemic cause for growth deficiency was identified. The case illus trates applicability of chromosome analysis in syndrome-associated gro wth failure, and a previously unreported associated chromosome abnorma lity. (C) 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.