Camurati-Engelmann disease type II: progressive diaphyseal dysplasia with striations of the bones.

Abstract

We recently found mutations of the transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta1) gene (TGFB1) in 9 families, in which progressive diaphyseal dysplasia (Camurati-Engelmann disease) is segregating [Kinoshita et al., 2000: Nat Genetics 26:19-20]. During the study, we encountered two unrelated girls, aged 17 and 11 years, who had clinical manifestations of the disorder, such as marfanoid habitus, waddling gait, muscular weakness, intense leg pain, flexion contracture of the hip and knee joints, delayed sexual development, increased serum alkaline phosphatase levels, and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rates. Radiographic studies in the two girls demonstrated not only diaphyseal dysplasia (cortical thickening of the diaphyses) resembling that of progressive diaphyseal dysplasia but also metaphyseal expansion of the long bones, coarse and thick trabeculae of the long and short tubular bones, striations in the spinal, pelvic, and long bones, and cranial sclerosis restricted to the petromastoid regions. These radiographic changes were overall identical with those seen in hyperostosis generalisata with striations of the bones rather than those in progressive diaphyseal dysplasia. Polymerase chain reaction-direct sequencing of all exons and their flanking regions of TGFB1 did not detect any mutations. PCR-single strand conformational polymorphism analysis of the TGF-beta type 1 receptor gene (TGFBR1) did not demonstrate any aberrant DNA fragments. We concluded from these findings that the two girls we described belong to a unique entity distinct from either of the two disorders.

• Authors: Gen Nishimura, Hitoshi Nishimura, Yoko Tanaka, Yoshio Makita, Shiro Ikegawa, Mohsen Ghadami, Akira Kinoshita, Norio Niikawa
• Journal: American journal of medical genetics (Am J Med Genet) Vol. 107 Issue 1 Pg. 5-11 (Jan 01 2002) ISSN: 0148-7299 [Print] United States
• PMID: 11807860 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
• Copyright: Copyright 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Chemical References

• Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta
• Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
• Activin Receptors, Type I
• Receptor, Transforming Growth Factor-beta Type I
• TGFBR1 protein, human

Topics

• Activin Receptors, Type I (genetics)
• Adolescent
• Bone and Bones (abnormalities, diagnostic imaging)
• Camurati-Engelmann Syndrome (diagnostic imaging, genetics, physiopathology)
• Child
• Female
• Hand (diagnostic imaging)
• Humans
• Leg (diagnostic imaging)
• Pelvis (diagnostic imaging)
• Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
• Radiography
• Receptor, Transforming Growth Factor-beta Type I
• Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta (genetics)
• Skull (diagnostic imaging)
• Spine (diagnostic imaging)