title: Costello syndrome: report of an 8-month-old marasmic boy.
abstract: An 8-month-old boy having multiple congenital anomalies (MCA) and mental retardation (MR) as part of the Costello syndrome is described. This observation emphasizes once more the severe and early-onset postnatal growth failure as the first, major clinical sign of this MCA/MR syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Popa
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Ioan
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Fryns
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D009386:Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D010212:Papilloma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D013577:Syndrome