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Floppy infant syndrome

Known as: floppy baby, hypotonia congenital, infant floppy 
A syndrome of generalized poor muscle tone and muscle weakness presenting in a newborn infant.
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Warburg Micro Syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive syndrome characterized by microcephaly, microphthalmia, microcornia… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a neurogenetic disease characterized by infantile hypotonia, gonadal hypoplasia, obsessive… 
1997
1997
FG syndrome is an X-linked recessive condition in which mental retardation is associated with congenital hypotonia, macrocephaly… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Electromyographic examination of the newborn and young infant provides a relatively uncommon challenge to most electromyographers… 
1989
1989
Neurological abnormalities are common in patients with organic acidaemias and sometimes these are distinctive. Lesions in various… 
1989
1989
We describe a boy with severe hypotonia and minor facial anomalies with a terminal deletion of chromosome 2q (46,XY,del(2)(q37… 
Review
1981
Review
1981
Three children with Prader-Willi syndrome and chromosome abnormalities affecting chromosome 15 are described and the literature… 
1963
1963
One hundred and thirty‐three ‘floppy infants’ who were referred for neurological consultation between the ages of 6 months and 2… 
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
The present concepts of amyotonia congenita are briefly outlined. Particular reference is made to the clinical syndrome of benign…