The case of a 15-year-old boy with Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome (EDS) is described. Clinically the symptoms of considerable hyperextension of joints, abnormal extensibility of skin, moderate bleeding tendencies and slight vulnerability of the skin, deformity of the thorax are corresponding with type I of EDS. Ocular symptoms are missing. Histologically the picture is that of mitis type resp. type II of EDS. An autosomal dominant inheritance is to be supposed. Psychically an imbecillity likely as a result of perinatally acquired brain damage, and an autistic syndrome of broken home situation are present. Differential diagnosis and genetic significance of EDS are discussed.

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