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Sotos syndrome

What are the symptoms?

Characteristics include macrocephaly (large head) with accelerated bone maturation, delayed development and language problems, widely spaced eyes, prominent jaw, and high arched palate. Intelligence varies from normal to mild learning disability. Children may be clumsy or ataxic (unsteady).

Growth rate usually slows at four to five years. Early adolescent development usually occurs. Adults are usually within normal height parameters. Weaver syndrome is a condition characterised by: accelerated growth; mild hypotonia; loose skin; thin hair; and camptodactyly (permanent immobility of a flexed finger joint).

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated November 1995 by Dr R Stanhope. Last reviewed July 2006 by Dr R Stanhope, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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