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ORPHA:221120Malformation syndrome
Also called ASSA · Aminopterin syndrome-like sine aminopterin
What it is
Pseudoaminopterin syndrome is a developmental anomalies syndrome that resembles the aminopterin embryopathy without history of fetal exposure to aminopterin. It is characterized by skull (craniosynostosis and poorly mineralized cranial vault), dysmorphic (ocular hypertelorism, palpebral fissure anomalies, micrognathia cleft lip and/or high arched palate and small and low set/rotated ears) and limb (brachydactyly, syndactyly and clinodactyly) anomalies, associated with mild-to-moderate intellectual deficit and short stature.
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Antenatal, Neonatal
- 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
Common30–79%
17- Abnormality of limbs
- Abnormal temporal bone morphology
- Blepharophimosis
- Cryptorchidism
- Frontal upsweep of hair
- Highly arched eyebrow
- High palate
- Hypertelorism
- Intellectual disability
- Limited elbow movement
- Micrognathia
- Patchy reduction of bone mineral density
- Posteriorly rotated ears
- Prominent nasal bridge
- Proptosis
- Short stature
- Underdeveloped supraorbital ridges
Sometimes5–29%
46- Absent earlobe
- Asplenia
- Brachydactyly
- Broad forehead
- Clinodactyly of the 4th finger
- Clinodactyly of the 5th toe
- Clubbing of fingers
- Dolichocephaly
and 38 more in this range
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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