CASE REPORT
Year : 2013 | Volume
: 19 | Issue : 1 | Page : 36--38
MISME syndrome: A rare clinical entity
Sajad Majid Qazi, KS Mehta, Mirza Aneesa, Irfan Iqbal
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, SMHS Hospital, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Correspondence Address:
Mirza Aneesa
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, SMHS Hospital, GMC Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
India
We report a case of a 16 year-old male patient diagnosed as MISME syndrome (MISME: Multiple inherited schwannomas, meningiomas, and ependymomas) which is a rare clinical entity. The disease is autosomally hereditary, without gender predilection and having a clinical penetrance rate of nearly 90%.The gene defect is in chromosome 22 ( NF II gene) and is distinguished from NF I where the gene defect is in chromosome 17.
How to cite this article:
Qazi SM, Mehta K S, Aneesa M, Iqbal I. MISME syndrome: A rare clinical entity.Indian J Otol 2013;19:36-38
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Qazi SM, Mehta K S, Aneesa M, Iqbal I. MISME syndrome: A rare clinical entity. Indian J Otol [serial online] 2013 [cited 2023 Feb 5 ];19:36-38
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