Megalencephaly-severe kyphoscoliosis-overgrowth syndrome

What it is

A rare genetic multiple congenital anomalies/dysmorphic syndrome characterized by overgrowth and macrocephaly with megalencephaly apparent at birth, global developmental delay, intellectual disability, and dysmorphic facial features (including frontal bossing, long face, sparse eyebrows, hypertelorism, downslanting palpebral fissures, and prognathism). Patients may exhibit tall stature with dolichostenomelia, arachnodactyly, kyphoscoliosis, and joint laxity, as well as neurologic manifestations, such as hypotonia, gait ataxia, or seizures. Brain imaging may show increased white matter volume, thick corpus callosum, or small cerebellum.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

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

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.

Gene

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.

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