Cerebroarthrodigital syndrome: A newly recognized formal genesis syndrome in three patients with apparent arthromyodysplasia and sacral agenesis, brain malformation and digital hypoplasia
✍ Scribed by Spranger, J. W. ;Schinzel, A. ;Myers, T. ;Ryan, J. ;Giedion, A. ;Opitz, J. M. ;Hall, Judith G.
- Book ID
- 102698959
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 734 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We describe three patients with a complex syndrome of apparent arthromyodysplasia, dyscephaly, sacral agenesis, and hypoplastic digits. Cause is unknown, but an environmental cause is suspected on the basis of ergotamine exposure in one case and diazoxide intake in another, together with suggestive similarities to anomalies seen in animals treated with these drugs and to calves with the Australian hydranencephaly/arthrogryposis syndrome caused by Akebane or Aino virus. Pathogenetically the primary defect may be a neural tube‐neural crest dysplasia with multiple secondary and tertiary manifestations and deformities.