Maria Paola Bonasoni, Giuseppina Comitini, Mariangela Pati, Veronica Bizzarri, Veronica Barbieri, Maria Marinelli, Stefano Giuseppe Caraffi, Roberta Zuntini, Marzia Pollazzon, Andrea Palicelli, Livia Garavelli
Background: SOX2 disorders are associated with anophthalmia-esophageal-genital syndrome or microphthalmia, syndromic 3 (MCOPS3- # 206900). Case Report: We describe a third fetal case with a de novo 3q26.32q26.33 deletion extending for 4.31 Mb, detected in a 15-week fetus. After legal interruption of pregnancy, at autopsy, the fetus presented bilateral microphthalmia, right cleft lip and palate, bilateral cerebral ventriculomegaly and dilated third ventricle, microcystic left lung, and intestinal malrotation...
September 25, 2023: Fetal and Pediatric Pathology