Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to P Fehlow.
Among 43 female patients aged 17-46 years with almost severe oligophrenia there were four with primary hypogonadism, one of them a case of Richards Rundle syndrome, now aged 20 years with absence of secondary sex characters, hypoplastic genitals, deafness, ataxia, wasting of muscles and reduced jerks. In cases of hypogonadism and hypogenitalism should be searched for mental and neurologic disorders, also for genetic counseling of the siblings.
Report of an 18-years old mentally retarded patient with Prader-Willi syndrome, who exhibits severe disorders of behaviour including self-injurious behaviour. A psychic frontal lobe syndrome as the result of premature craniosynostosis is discussed.
Report of a case of the fetal face syndrome associated with severe oligophrenia and septum pellucidum cyste in a male patient aged 30 years. The case demonstrates the good prognosis of the hypogenitalism resp. small genitalia; the correct diagnosis in this syndrome can the patients save a plastic of the penis.
Report of an association of Saethre-Chotzen- and fragile X-Syndrome in a 19-years old imbecile with autism and aggressiveness. Both syndromes exhibit symptoms of minimal brain damage and disorders of personality.
Report of an imbecile female aged 20 years with congenital absence of the pectoral muscle (abortive Poland anomaly) at the right and peromelia of the left forearm.