Description

Elsea and Girirajan reported the clinical features of a patient with the Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS) associated with a 17p11.2 deletion. These were summarized from several previous reports. The authors are from the Medical College of Virginia.


 

Findings in the almost all of patients (> 90%):

(1) brachycephaly

(2) midface hypoplasia

(3) variable mental retardation

(4) speech delay

(5) motor delay

(6) hypotonia

(7) sleep disturbance

(8) attention seeking

(9) dental anomalies

 

Findings in most patients (> 50%):

(1) prognathism

(2) tented upper lip

(3) broad, square face

(4) brachydactyly

(5) short stature

(6) scoliosis

(7) chronic ear infections

(8) hearing loss

(9) voice that is deep and/or hoarse

(10) self hugging and/or hand wringing

(11) self-injurious behaviors

(12) head banging or face slapping

(13) self-biting or hand-biting

(14) myopia

(15) strabismus

 

Findings in some patients:

(1) snyophrys (eyebrows that grow together)

(2) seizures

(3) onychotillomania

(4) polyembolokoilamania (habit of putting foreign objects into the ear or other body orifices)

(5) cardiovascular anomalies

(6) renal or urinary tract abnormalities

 

Occasional findings:

(1) cleft palate and/or lip

(8) obesity

 


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