Author/Editor		Eržen, M; Stanescu, R; Stanescu, V; Maroteaux, P
Title		Comparative histopathology of the growth cartilage in short-rib polydactyly syndromes type I and type III and in chondroectodermal dysplasia
Type		članek
Source		Ann Genet
Vol. and No.		Letnik 31, št. 3
Publication year		1988
Volume		str. 144-50
Language		eng
Abstract		The histopathology of growth cartilage of long bones was studied in two cases of chondroectodermal dysplasia (Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome), a case of short-rib polydactyly (SRP) type I (Saldino-Noonan syndrome), three cases of short-rib polydactyly (SRP) type III (Verma-Naumoff syndrome), and a case with polydactyly without other skeletal abnormalities but with visceral malformations. The lesions were qualitatively similar in chondroectodermal dysplasia and SRP I: regular concave ossification line, short, slightly irregular columns, regularly dispersed hypertrophic chondrocytes. In SRP III, the ossification line was irregular and the hypertrophic cells had a discontinuous distribution in clusters. No amylase resistant PAS intracytoplasmic inclusions were found. Short, slightly or markedly irregular primary trabeculae, some of them with wide cartilaginous cores, tongue prolongations and islands of cartilage situated along the periost were found in chondroectodermal dysplasia, SRP I and III. The case of polydactyly without other skeletal abnormalities had a normal morphology of the growth plate. These data suggest that there is a relationship between chondroectodermal dysplasia and SPR type I, and that SRP type III is distinct from SRP type I.
Descriptors		ELLIS-VAN CREVELD SYNDROME GROWTH PLATE OSTEOCHONDRODYSPLASIAS SHORT RIB-POLYDACTYLY SYNDROME INFANT INFANT, NEWBORN SHORT RIB-POLYDACTYLY SYNDROME STAINS AND STAINING