Anaesthesia and orphan disease

Editor, Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen (DMC) syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia characterised by spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, microcephaly, mental retardation and coarse facies.1 In Smith-McCort dysplasia (SMC), a rare variant of DMC, the patients have normal intelligence.2,3 We present the airway problems in a patient with SMC undergoing surgery for atlanto-axial dislocation. The patient's mother has kindly given consent...