Down’s syndrome | PGI MCQ

In Down’s syndrome 

a. Saddle gap
b. Antimongoloid slant 
c. Cliodactyly 
d. Hypotonia
e. webbed neck

Ans. (A) Gap (Saddle gap) ; (C) Cilnodactyly ; (D) Hypotonia

• Features of Down Syndrome :

- Mental and physical retardation .

- Flat facies

- Upward slant of eyes (Mongoloid)

- Epicanthal folds

- Oblique palpebral fissure

- Small nose with flat nasal bridge

- Narrow short: palate with small teeth and furrowed protruding tongue

- Skull-Small, brachycephalic with flat occiput

- Small, dysplastic.ear

- Hands are short and broad

- Clinodactyly

- Simian crease

- Sandle gap

- Distal .triradius and .proponderance of ulnar loops on fingers.

- Hypotoiiia