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H. GRAY, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1945;75(4):215-221.

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Nearly half a century ago there appeared the first report (Marfan, 1896)¹ on a developmental anomaly which was well described as a congenital deformation of the four extremities characterized by long and slender bones. The names applied to the condition have been: spider fingers, arachnodactyly or arachnodactylia, dolichostenomelia, and hyperchondroplasia (by way of contrast with achondroplasia). Subsequently other congenital disabilities have been associated: dislocation of the lens, cardiac defects and feeblemindedness. More than 200 cases are said to have been reported in the literature, and the condition is indeed not rare, since 4 patients have been called to my attention by members of the staff within the last two years. Judging by a survey of a dozen reports in print,² one is surprised by the scarcity of anthropologic measurements, since these would certainly permit the earlier and more accurate recognition of cases now clinically missed. In some of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

From the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Aided by the Rockefeller Fluid Research Fund.

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