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The Saethre-Chotzen syndrome with partial bifid of the distal phalanges of the great toes

Observations of three cases in one family

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The authors describe three cases of familial acrocephalosyndactyly (ACS) in two boys (9 and 3 years of age) and in their 7.5-year old sister. In addition, irregularities in skull and limbs were found in the 46-year old father as well as in two other children, i.e., two girls, 14 and 4 years of age. The mother (46 years-old) and the remaining four 4 boys (12-, 9-, and 7-years-old), as well as the youngest child, a son, (1-year-old) did not show any deviations.

The diagnosis of the Saethre-Chotzen syndrome in six members of one family was based on the finding of a typical skull deformation (oxybrachycephalia), low hairline, flattened nasofrontal angle, lateral deviation of the nasal septum, facial dysmorphy, prolapse of upper eyelids, antomongoloid placement of palpebral fissures, protruding eyes, hypertelorism, dysmorphy of auricles, imperfect hearing, highly arched palate, improper dentition, and characteristic skin syndactyly of hands and feet. In addition, deformed chest, weight and height deficiency, significant mental retardation, as well as, in the boys, true cryptorchidism were found. Radiological examination showed, in all affected members of the family, intensified digitate impressions within the whole fornix of the skull, large and deep sella turcica, underdeveloped frontal bone and upper jaw bone, untypical syndactyly of hands and feet, and the partial bifid of distal phalanges of the great toes, not described previously in the Saethre-Chotzen syndrome. In the differential diagnosis, other forms of ACS, i.e., Apert, Vogt, Pfeiffer, Summitt, and Herrmann-Opitz syndromes, were not found.

Manifestation of the described symptoms transferred autosomally, dominantly, and with a similar degree of expression in 6 of 11 members of one family, leads us to think that they are the consequence of a fresh mutation revealed in the father.

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    Zbyslaw Kopyść, Józef Ryżko & Bronislawa Kulczyk

  2. Institute of Radiology, Academy of Medicine, Poznań, Poland

    Maria Stańska

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Kopyść, Z., Stańska, M., Ryżko, J. et al. The Saethre-Chotzen syndrome with partial bifid of the distal phalanges of the great toes. Hum Genet 56, 195–204 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00295694

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