Two Japanese cases with microcephalic primordial dwarfism: Classical seckel syndrome and osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II

A male infant with "classical" Seckel syndrome and a girl with osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II are described. The boy with classical Seckel syndrome had severe brain dysplasia, a finding hitherto unreported in patients with this syndrome. The patient with osteodysplastic dwarfism type II had skeletal abnormalities including lumbar scoliosis, a small and high pelvis, metaphyseal flaring of the distal radii and ulnae, V-shaped...