Extensor-tendon hypoplasia and multiple pterygia: Escobar syndrome in a 7-year-old boy.

Abstract

Escobar syndrome is a rare condition with autosomal-recessive inheritance, characterised by multiple pterygia, kyphoscoliosis, multiple joint contractures and craniofacial dysmorphisms. A number of other abnormalities are also attributed to the syndrome. Here, we present a case of isolated extrinsic extensor-tendon hypoplasia of the right index finger in a 7-year-old patient with Escobar syndrome. To our knowledge, this has not been previously described in connection with this syndrome.

• Authors: A Aslani, U Kleiner, E M Noah, S Rudnik-Schöneborn, N Pallua
• Journal: British journal of plastic surgery (Br J Plast Surg) Vol. 55 Issue 6 Pg. 516-9 (Sep 2002) ISSN: 0007-1226 [Print] England
• PMID: 12479430 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Abnormalities, Multiple (pathology)
• Child
• Facies
• Hand Deformities, Congenital (pathology, surgery)
• Humans
• Male
• Micrognathism (pathology)
• Neck (abnormalities)
• Syndrome
• Tendons (abnormalities, surgery)