Polydactyly is a relatively common abnormality in infants. However, it can be a marker of a wide variety of neurological and systemic abnormality. Hence, it is important for pediatrician and physician to have insight into the various association of this apparently innocuous anomaly. In this write-up, we report an extremely rare syndrome associated with polydactyly that is Pallister-Hall syndrome. A 10-month-old male child born by lower segment cesarean section presented with global delay associated with microcephaly, frontal bossing, hypertelorism, flat nose, short philtrum, incomplete cleft in the upper lip and hard palate, polydactyly, and syndactyly. The child presented with repeated vomiting and crying episodes. The patient was investigated which revealed a hypothalamic hamartomas. Pallister-Hall syndrome is a very rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder due to mutation in GLI3 gene in the short arm of chromosome 7 with variable penetrance and expressivity.
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J Epilepsy Res
June 2024
Department of Neurology, Meitra Hospital, Calicut, India.
Kidney Int
July 2024
Division of Nephrology, ULiège Academic Hospital, Liège, Belgium. Electronic address:
Heliyon
April 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Jinhua Municipal Central Hospital, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, 321000, China.
Background: gene mutations can result in various forms of polysyndactyly, such as Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (GCPS, MIM: #175700), Pallister-Hall syndrome (PHS, MIM: #146510), and isolated polydactyly (IPD, MIM: #174200, #174700). Reports on IPD-associated mutations are rare. In this study, a novel mutation was identified in a Chinese family with IPD.
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