Clinical, radiological and biochemical findings of two new cases of Sanfilippo disease, type D are reported. A high percentage of heparan sulfate was found in the urinary glycosaminoglycan pattern and a severe deficiency of N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase was demonstrated in skin cultured fibroblasts from the patients. One of the patients presented mild intellectual impairment which differentiates him from the other cases described to date.