Table 1

Clinical findings documented in six reported patients with the ocular ectodermal syndrome

Toriello et al (1993)Gardner and Viljoen (1994)Evers et al (1994)
Patient 5
Present case (1998)
Patient 6
Patient 1Patient 2Patient 3Patient 4
Birth weight (kg)3.174.7unknown2.744.092.86
Birth OFC
 (cm)3640.5unknown343843.2
 (centile)(>98th)(>98th)unknown(10–25th)(>98th)(>98th)
Postnatal macrocephaly++/−+
Craniofacial anomalies
 Parietal bossing+++
 Frontal bossing+
 Skull defect++
 (location)(vertex)(parietal)
 Prominent eyes++
 Epicanthal folds+++
 Flat nasal bridge+++
Ocular anomalies
 Epibulbar dermoid++++++
 Other findingschorioretinal atrophy; corneal opacity; strabismusabnormal retinal pigment epithelium; hypermetropic astigmatism; strabismus; small disc right eye; large disc left eyeesotropia
Ectodermal anomalies
 Aplasia cutis congenita+++++
 Skin hyperpigmentation++
 Skin myxovascular hamartoma+
  • Occipitofrontal circumference.