“…The radiographic findings were sufficiently characteristic to differentiate this syndrome from other causes of accelerated skeletal maturation and are present at birth. Occasionally, other anomalies have been reported, such as scoliosis (Marshall et al, 1971;Nabrady and Bozalyi, 1973;Hassan et al, 1976;Baldellou Vazquez et al, 1983;Rodriguez-Fernandez et al, 1986;Washington et al, 1993), choanal atresia or stenosis (Tipton et al, 1973;Visveshwara et al, 1974;Perrin et al, 1976;Iafusco et al, 1977;Flatz and Natzschka, 1978;Menguy et al, 1986), high-arched palate (Visveshwara et al, 1974;Okada et al, 1977;Baldellou Vazquez et al, 1983;Yoder et al, 1988;Charon et al, 1990;Ishikawa et ai., 1991), well developed calcaneus (Tipton et al, 1973;Hassan et al, 1976;Ferran et al, 1978;Flatz and Natzschka, 1978;Menguy et al, 1986;Ishikawa et al, 1991), deep hand or foot creases (Visveshwara et al, 1974;Johnson et al, 1982;Charon et al, 1990;Eich et al, 1991;Sperli et al, 1993), short sternum (Ferran et al, 1978;Johnson et al, 1982), cardiovascular defects (Perrin et al, 1976), hydronephrosis with megaureter (Hassan et al, 1976), and immunological abnormalities (Johnson et al, 1983).…”