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ORPHA:86822Malformation syndrome
What it is
A rare syndromic form of lissencephaly characterized by severe microcephaly, agyria, agenesis of the corpus callosum, cerebellar hypoplasia, facial dysmorphology and epiphyseal stippling of the metacarpal bones. The syndrome may be an allelic variant of Neu-Laxova syndrome and Lissencephaly type III with cystic dilations of the cerebellum and foetal akinesia sequence.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Antenatal, Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Autosomal recessive
- Classified as
- Malformation syndrome
Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.
Signs and symptoms
Very common80–99%
21- Abnormal basal ganglia morphology
- Abnormal bone structure
- Abnormal cartilage matrix
- Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
- Atrophy of the spinal cord
- Cerebellar hypoplasia
- Cerebral hypoplasia
- Diffuse axonal swelling
- Epiphyseal stippling
- Facial edema
- Hypoplasia of the brainstem
- Lissencephaly
- Microcephaly
- Neuronal loss in the cerebral cortex
- Pachygyria
- Partial agenesis of the corpus callosum
- Pulmonary hypoplasia
- Short distal phalanx of finger
- Short metacarpal
- Small basal ganglia
- Talipes equinovarus
These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.
ICD-10 codes
ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.
Related health topics
Reached through the ICD-10 categories this disease is filed under, so these describe the broader group rather than this disease specifically.
Cross-references
Orphadata Science: Free access data from Orphanet. © INSERM 1999. Data version 2026-06-23. Available under CC BY 4.0. This is a reference, not medical advice.
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