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Patient with downslanted palpebral fissures, eyelid coloboma, and underdeveloped zygoma/mandible u2014 diagnosis:

  1. Gardner syndrome
  2. Down syndrome
  3. Treacher Collins syndrome
  4. Pierre Robin sequence
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Correct answer: C. Treacher Collins syndrome

Treacher Collins syndrome (mandibulofacial dysostosis) features downslanted palpebral fissures, eyelid coloboma, microtia, and underdeveloped zygoma, maxilla, and mandible u2014 due to inadequate neural crest cell migration to pharyngeal arches 1 and 2. Down syndrome has UPslanted fissures.

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