Abstract

SUMMARY. A boy with a complex combination of physical features is reported. These include an unusual fades with hypertelorism, cutis gyratum, acanthosis nigricans, abnormal genitalia, cleft of the soft palate, bifid uvula, premature eruption of teeth, partial anodontia, retardation of bone growth and functional pyloric obstruction. These features are compared with those of leprechaunism, Seip's syndrome, and a case of “leprechaunism” in a male described by Patterson and Watkins (1962). The aetiology is unknown.

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