We report on a 2 year old boy with an apparently previously undescribed multiple congenital anomaly/mental retardation syndrome characterised by postnatal short stature, postnatal microcephaly, dysmorphic face, syndactyly 2/5 of the hands and 1/4 of the feet, and brachymesophalangy of fingers 2 and 5.

Two sibs with a syndrome including cleft lip and palate, sparse scalp hair, malformed protruding ears, and partial syndactyly of the fingers and toes are reported. The older child also has mental retardation and pili torti. This syndrome is most probably inherited as an autosomal recessive disorder.

Apert's syndrome (acrocephalosyndactyly) is a rare congenital disorder characterized by craniosynostosis, mid-facial malformations and symmetrical syndactyly. We present a 2-month-old girl having features of Apert's syndrome, with cerebral cortical atrophy and bifurcation of the right first metatarsal base, a hitherto undescribed finding.

A 22-week pregnancy was terminated after discovery of serious echographic abnormalities. Fetal examination showed cyclopia, sacral meningocele, and syndactyly. The karyotype was 69,XXX. The parents had identical HLA alleles A1, A2, and Bw21. The mechanism of the triploidy was determined by chromosome marker analysis to be digyny. The association of triploidy with holoprosencephaly and the paren...

A family is described in which craniosynostosis is associated with characteristic pinnae, a short columella, and symmetrical syndactyly of the fourth and fifth toes, inherited as an autosomal dominant condition. Various dominantly inherited syndromes involving craniosynostosis have been identified, but the constellation of findings in this family suggests a new syndrome different from those pre...