Syndrome of waardenburg with deafness

Inherited diseases of the inner ear in man in the light of studies on the mouse.

“…Deafness in association with pigmentary abnormalities occurs in a number of diseases forming a group. The best known of all is Waardenburg's syndrome (Waardenburg, 1951;Arnvig, 1959;Zelig, 1961) which is inherited in the dominant manner. Deafness in this syndrome may be unilateral or bilateral and even in the bilateral type some residual hearing is often present.…”

Waardenburg Syndrome with Associated Multiple Anomalies

“…Since the first description of Waardenburg, certain aspects of the syndrome have also been reported by other authors [6,7], Meanwhile, other authors, as previously mentioned, described the syndrome with as sociated anomalies. Klein [2] described a fe male patient with telacanthus, synophrys, partial albinismus of the skin and hair, blue irides and associated osseous dysplasia that included also syndactyly.…”

A New Hereditary Syndrome – Sex-linked Deaf-mutism Associated with Total Albinism

“…Waardenburg (1951) reviewed this subject and provided an extensive bibliography of the published li terature. Other authors (Zelig, 1961;Arnvig, 1959;Klein. 1950) have also reported several cases.…”