Two cases of Sjogren-Larsson syndrome in the same family

Abstract

Sjоgren-Larsson syndrome is a hereditary disorder detected in the first months of a child's life. It is characterized by varying degrees of oligophrenia combined with spastic diplegia and congenital universal ichthyosis, and sometimes epileptic seizures, retinitis pigmentosa in the macula, dwarfism or giant growth, genital hypoplasia and anemia. Inheritance type is autosomal recessive with high penetrance and variable expression.

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