title: Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia Maroteaux type: report of three patients from two families and exclusion of type II collagen defects.
abstract: Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (SED) Maroteaux type is an autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia, characterized by spondylar dysplasia, mild epiphyseal dysplasia of the large joints, and type E-like brachydactyly. These manifestations overlap with those of spondyloperipheral dysplasia (SPD), in which a sporadic case with a mutation of COL2A1 has been reported. We report on three patients (an affected woman and her son and a sporadic case of an affected man) with SED Maroteaux type. The affected adults were severely short along with stubby hands and feet, and one developed myelopathy as a result of thoracolumbar gibbus. The affected child was mildly short at birth, and developed brachydactyly in early childhood. The radiological hallmarks of these patients included severe platyspondyly with square-shaped vertebral bodies, iliac hypoplasia, epiphyseal hypoplasia of the large joints, and strikingly short metacarpals and phalanges. These radiological findings appeared already apparent in early childhood. SED Maroteaux type was radiologically discriminative from SPD. Brachydactyly was much severe in the former than in the latter, and spondylar dysplasia manifestation was different between both disorders. Mutation screen by polymerase chain reaction-direct sequencing for all exons and their flanking regions of COL2A1 did not reveal any mutations in the three patients.
authors.affiliation: Japanese Skeletal Dysplasia Consortium, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Gen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Rika
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kizu
authors.forename: Yoshimaro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kijima
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kawaguchi
authors.forename: Tomoatsu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Matsushita
authors.forename: Shuya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shirahama
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Shiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikegawa
authors.forename: Tomonobu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001848:Bone Diseases, Developmental / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics*; D002648:Child; D024043:Collagen Type II / Q000235:genetics*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010009:Osteochondrodysplasias / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000235:genetics; D011859:Radiography
chemical_list: C499177:COL2A1 protein, human; D024043:Collagen Type II