Costello syndrome: report of an 8-month-old marasmic boy.
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.
Popa
M
M
Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, Institute of Endocrinology, Bucharest, Romania.
Ioan
D M
DM
Fryns
J P
JP
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