{{for| Harry Benjamin syndrome| Transsexual#Terminological variance}} {{Infobox medical condition (new) | name = | synonym = '''Benjamin anemia''' | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pronounce = | specialty = <!-- from Wikidata, can be overwritten --> | symptoms = | complications = | onset = | duration = | types = | causes = | risks = | diagnosis = | differential = | prevention = | treatment = | medication = | prognosis = | frequency = | deaths = }} '''Benjamin syndrome''' is a type of multiple congenital anomaly/intellectual disability syndrome. It is characterized by hypochromic anemia with intellectual disability and various craniofacial and other anomalies.<ref name="firkin2001">{{cite book | last1 = Firkin | first1 = Barry G. | last2 = Whitworth | first2 = Judith A. | year = 2001 | edition = 2nd | title = Dictionary of medical eponyms | publisher = Informa Health Care | isbn = 978-1-85070-333-4 | page = [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmedi0000firk/page/30 30] | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmedi0000firk/page/30 }}</ref> It can also include heart murmur, dental caries and splenic tumors.<ref name="bartolucci">{{cite book | last1 = Bartolucci | first1 = Susan L |author2=Stedman, Thomas Lathrop |author3=Forbis, Pat | year = 2005 | edition = 2nd | title = Stedman's medical eponyms | publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | isbn = 978-0-7817-5443-9 | page = 63 }}</ref>
It was first described in the medical literature in 1911.<ref name="benjamin1911">Benjamin E (1911). Über eine selbständige Form der Anämie im frühen Kindersalter. ''Verh Deut Ges Kinderh'', 1911,119-24.</ref> Symptoms include megalocephaly, external ear deformities, dental caries, micromelia, hypoplastic bone deformities, hypogonadism, hypochromic anemia with occasional tumors, and intellectual disability.<ref name="jablonski1991">Jablonski, Stanley (1991). ''[https://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20061212/mesh/jablonski/cgi/jablonski/syndrome_cgib91e.html Jablonski's dictionary of syndromes & eponymic diseases.]'' Krieger Pub. Co. {{ISBN|978-0-89464-224-1}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20061212/mesh/jablonski/cgi/jablonski/syndrome_cgib91e.html Benjamin syndrome] via National Library of Medicine.
Category:Congenital disorders Category:Syndromes affecting blood Category:Genetic disorders with no OMIM Category:Rare syndromes Category:Eponyms in medicine Category:1910s neologisms {{Genetic-disorder-stub}}