Two unrelated patients of different sexes are described, both presenting with congenital redundant skin (cutis laxa), growth deficiency, mental retardation and bone dystrophy. Parental consanguinity in both families and a more pronounced severity of the neurological disease in the male patient were present. Both patients were diagnosed in infancy as having De Barsy syndrome, but clinical follow-up revealed that the clinical picture was compatible with the diagnosis of cutis laxa with growth and developmental delay (CLGDD), gerodermia osteodysplastica (GO) and wrinkly-skin syndrome (WWS). It has recently been suggested that cutis laxa with growth and developmental delay, gerodermia osteodysplastica and wrinkly skin syndrome are the same condition. A review concerning this diagnosis is also presented.
cutis laxa; De Barsy syndrome; gerodermia osteodysplastica; wrinkly skin syndrome
