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Some syndromes with camptodactyly

Nina Amalia Brancia Pagnan^I; Thomaz Rafael Gollop^II

^IDepartamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11461, 05499 São Paulo, SP, Brasil
^IIServiço de Genética Humana, Associação Maternidade de São Paulo, Rua Tabapuã, 649, 4 °., cj. 44, 04533 São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Send correspondence to TRG

ABSTRACT

The objective of the present report is to stress the importance of camptodactyly in clinical genetics. We studied patients displaying camptodactyly using this as an agglutinating sign for related syndromes. Five patients with established syndromic diagnoses, all accompanied by camptodactyly, are reported.

Keywords: syndromes; camptodactyly.

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