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Debunking the Myth: Should Pierre Robin be Credited for Defining the Pierre Robin Sequence?

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The Pierre Robin Sequence is a rare craniofacial malformation that invariably combines retrognathism, glossoptosis, and upper airway obstruction, with a prevalence ranging from 1 in 8000 to 1 in 14,000 newborns. Although formally described by the French physician Pierre Robin in 1923, older and even ancient as far back as the Babylonian times, descriptions have been identified. Dr Pierre Robin's perspicacity lay in putting up a treatment for the patients presenting those symptoms. That is why his successors honored his work by naming this disease after him.

Source: Otolaryngology

DOI: 10.1002/ohn.1064

Authors: Maëlys Leger, Robin Baudouin, Briac Thierry

Institutions: Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris Cité, Institut Necker Enfants Malades, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Hôpital Foch, Laboratoire Anthropologie, Archéologie, Biologie

Language: English

Topic: Cleft Lip and Palate Research

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4404722003

FWCI: 0.241

Cites: 8

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10