FAMILIAL DWARFISM AND PAINFUL MUSCLE SPASMS

We report a family with a disorder characterized by limbs and truncal undulating painful muscle spasms, short stature, fine and sparse hair in the scalp, absence of body hair, low implanted ears, big nose, pitc hed voice, enlarged heart ventricles and increased fasting glucose lev els. Symptoms began in childhood and did not progress after the third decade of life. This disorder represents a new clinical phenotype amon g the several forms of dwarfism associated with neurological manifesta tions already described in the literature.