Bartsocas-Papas syndrome with fusion of the lips and posterior fusion defects of the thoracic vertebrae

Bartsocas-Papas syndrome is a rare popliteal pterygial syndrome with multip le anomalies including microcephaly, facial clefts, filiform bands, ankylob lepharon, syndactyly, and other ectodermal anomalies. Affected infants usua lly die perinatally. The authors present an 8-month-old female infant with manifestations of this syndrome and some additional traits including fusion of the lips, intraoral filiform bands, alopecia totalis, and posterior fus ion failure of the vertebrae. The fused lips were opened by incising the fi brotic bands closing her mouth. Details of this patient and a brief review of the literature is presented.