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ORPHA:163654Disease
Also called SED-BDS · Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, Cantu type · Tattoo dysplasia
What it is
Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, Cantu type is an extremely rare type of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia described in about 5 patients to date and characterized by clinical signs including short stature, peculiar facies with blepharophimosis, upward slanted eyes, abundant eyebrows and eyelashes, coarse voice, and short hands and feet (brachymetacarpalia, brachymetatarsalia and brachyphalangia).
Key facts
- Prevalence
- <1 / 1 000 000
- Age of onset
- Infancy, Neonatal
- Inheritance
- Unknown
- Classified as
- Disease
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%
39- Abnormality of the chin
- Abnormality of the voice
- Abnormal metatarsal morphology
- Abnormal palate morphology
- Anteverted nares
- Aplasia/Hypoplasia involving the pelvis
- Blepharophimosis
- Brachydactyly
- Broad long bones
- Broad neck
- Cryptorchidism
- Cubitus valgus
- Cuboid-shaped vertebral bodies
- Curly eyelashes
- Curly hair
- Delayed skeletal maturation
- Depressed nasal bridge
- Enlarged thorax
- Facial hirsutism
- Hypoplastic pelvis
- Limited pronation/supination of forearm
- Long philtrum
- Low posterior hairline
- Microtia
- Multiple rows of eyelashes
- Nail dysplasia
- Narrow philtrum
- Pectus excavatum
- Rhizo-meso-acromelic limb shortening
- Short long bone
- Short neck
- Short stature
- Short thorax
- Thick eyebrow
- Thick lower lip vermilion
- Thick upper lip vermilion
- Upslanted palpebral fissure
- Wide mouth
- Wide nasal bridge
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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