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The otto-palatal-digital syndrome

Stella Rosenbaum^I; aGerson Carakushazkyutor^II; Sonia Gleiser^II

^IDepartamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, and ^IIDepartamento de Pediatria, Hospital Universitário, Av. Brg. Trompowsky, s/n, 21941 Ilha do Governador, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. Send correspondence to S.R. at the following address: Rua Tonelero, 203, 6° andar, Copacabana, 22030 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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ABSTRACT

One family, composed of the proband, his mother and sister, presenting the Oto-PalatoDigital (OPD) Syndrome, is described. Only four families have been previously described, for a total of 21 affected persons, not including isolated cases. Increased bone density was not present in the family studied here.

Keywords: otto-palatal-digital; syndrome.

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