Normal intelligence in two children with carpenter syndrome

1 January 1978

journal article
case report
Published by Wiley in American Journal of Medical Genetics

Vol. 2 (2) , 191-199
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.1320020210

Abstract

Previous reports have noted a constant association between the Carpenter syndrome (acrocephalopolysyndactyly, type II) and mental retardation. We report two patients with this condition with normal intelligence. These observations indicate that mental deficiency is not necessarily a component of the Carpenter syndrome and that early surgical correction of the craniosynostoses may improve the chances of normal mentality.

Keywords

CARPENTER SYNDROME
ACROCEPHALOPOLYSYNDACTYLY
MENTAL RETARDATION
CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS
AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE
GENETIC COUNSELING

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome
American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1972
Carpenter's syndrome: Acrocephalopolysyndactyly. An autosomal recessive syndrome
The Journal of Pediatrics, 1966