The craniodigital syndrome of Scott: report of a second family.

We report on a boy with a characteristic combination of facial anomalies, syndactylies of fingers and toes, and mental retardation. Scott et al. (Journal of Pediatrics 78:658-663, 1971) observed 3 brothers with almost identical manifestations. The mother of these patients had bilateral syndactyly of toes 2 and 3. This led the authors to suggest X-linked inheritance. The mother of our patient also has cutaneous syndactyly between the second and third toes, strengthening the hypothesis of X-linked inheritance.