Short rib–polydactyly syndrome (SRPS) type II is a rare lethal form of skeletal dysplasia, characterized by polydactyly, short limbs, short and horizontal ribs, a small ovoid tibia and major organ anomalies [1]. Prenatal diagnosis by genetic testing is not available; ultrasound plays an important role. With no prior history usually these cases are detected late in pregnancy; postnatal examinati...

A full term female newborn, weighing 2 Kg, was born with severe shortening of limbs with bilateral postaxial polydactyly. Chest was very narrow. There was polysyndactyly of right and left toe (Fig. 1) and anthropometry revealed a length of 40 cms, upper segment 28 cm, arm span 35 cm and chest circumference 21 cm. The neonate had respiratory distress since birth and died after 5 hrs. A clinical ...

Ellis–van creveld syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome of the heart, skeleton and most of the ectodermal derivatives. It is caused due to genetic defects in the chromosome 4p16; it belongs to short rib-polydactyly group (SRP). It is characterized by short ribs, short limb, polydactyly, ectodermal dysplasia and congenital heart defects. The oral manifestation is one of the main charac...

The presentation of the typical characteristics of the acrocallosal syndrome (ACLS) are hypoplasia/agenesis of corpus callosum, moderate to severe mental retardation, characteristic craniofacial abnormalities, distinctive digital malformation, and growth retardation in a neonate. An Indian neonate presented on day 1 of life (youngest in the literature to be reported) with combination of abnorma...

We report two new unrelated infants with short rib-polydactyly syndrome (SRPS) whose clinical and radiological features overlap the four established forms of lethal SRPS, so that it is difficult to classify them into any one particular type. One of the babies had one of the most radiologically severe SRPS ever published. The patients presented here support the previously reported hypothesis tha...

The association of lethal neonatal dwarfism, narrow thorax, and polydactyly is well established in the older literature particularly from the syndromes described by Jeune and Ellis-Van Creveld.' There has been renewed interest in this subject and the classification of short rib polydactyly since Majewski et al. described the features of a lethal congenital syndrome characterised by short ribs a...

Short rib-polydactyly syndrome (SRPS) is a group of lethal skeletal dysplasia of an autosomal recessive inheritance characterized by markedly narrow ribs, micromelia, and multiple anomalies of major organs. We report a case of type IV SRPS with uncommon associations of polydactyly and bilateral polycystic kidneys, in a 28 week old female fetus. She was born dead to a 28 year old mother, showing...