SUTURAL EXOSTOSES, RIB HYPEROSTOSES, CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS MENTAL-RETARDATION WITH FOCAL FAT DEPOSITION - PROTEUS SYNDROME

We report on a 3-year-old boy with cartilaginous exostoses of the cran ial sutures, rib hyperostosis, macrocephaly, metopic craniostenosis, e pibulbar dermoid, hyperpigmented macules on the neck, focal fat deposi tion, and mild mental retardation with marked speech delay, Several of these manifestations were reported previously as an ''unknown'' by Th anes et al, [1977], with additional clinical information and a diagnos is of Proteus syndrome [Cohen, 1993]. (C) 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.