siblings..a syndrome?

[maia]

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hi!
saw a 4-mo old baby girl for follow up in the outpatient dept, for dressing of her VP shunt. the baby has a meningocele and history involves sudden development of hydrocephalus at a few weeks' age.

then noticed that her older 5yo sister had tears and the mom explained it was congenital blockage of her NL ducts-->dacryostenosis?

is there a possible syndrome that links these siblings' conditions?

thanks!

 

[Freibi]

You can look up any combination of symptoms on OMIM: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
(One of the choices in the horizontal black menu on top of the page, next to All Databases, PubMed, Genome, Structure, etc.)

I'm not getting any useful results for "meningocele dacryostenosis", "meningocele lacrimal", or "dacryo* meningocele" - maybe it's a yet unknown syndrome 😉 (family history?), or the two things have no relation to each other.