Centrofacial lentiginosis. A survey of 40 cases.

Forty patients with centrofacial lentiginosis have been studied. A greater than normal number of bone abnormalities, malformations due to dysraphia, endocrine dysfunctions, and neurological diseases, but not psychiatric impairment, were found.

[Camptodactyly. Apropos of 25 cases].

In a group of 120 mental patients, the authors found obvious camptodactyly in 65 patients (46%), especially in psychopaths, neurotics and related conditions. Clinical, psychological, radiological and laboratory investigations were carried out in 25 of these cases. The disease was accompanied by disorders of glucose metabolism, endocrine abnormalities, EEG and bone abnormalities together with arthrosis.

[Camptodactylia. A study of 33 cases].

A marked camptodactylia, or a mere suggestion of it, was found in 91 (56; 5%) of 161 mentally ill patients, particularly in psychopaths, neurotics and patients in a neurotic state. Clinical, psychological, radiological and biological investigations were carried out in 33 patients. The camptodactylia was frequently associated with distrubances of the carbohydrate metabolism, especially with spontaneous hypoglycemias, as well as arthrotic skeletal changes.