Vertebral and eye anomalies, cutis aplasia, and short stature (VECS): a new syndrome?

C Prasad; M Connolly-Wilson; T O Rosales

Vertebral and eye anomalies, cutis aplasia, and short stature (VECS): a new syndrome?

Am J Med Genet. 1998 May 18;77(3):225-7.

Authors

C Prasad¹, M Connolly-Wilson, T O Rosales

Affiliation

¹ Medical Genetics Program, Janeway Child Health Centre, St. John's Newfoundland, Canada. cprasad@nf.sympatico.ca

PMID: 9605589

Abstract

We report on a 6-year-old girl with short stature, facial anomalies, cutis aplasia, nasolacrimal duct obstruction, megalocorneae, kyphoscoliosis with multiple segmentation defects of the thoracic vertebrae, and 11 pairs of ribs. These anomalies together may represent a newly recognized syndrome.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Abnormalities, Multiple / diagnostic imaging
Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics*
Body Height
Child
Eye Abnormalities / genetics*
Face / abnormalities
Female
Humans
Radiography
Scoliosis / diagnostic imaging
Scoliosis / pathology
Skin Abnormalities / genetics*
Syndrome
Thoracic Vertebrae / abnormalities*
Thoracic Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging