The Dubowitz syndrome.

This paper reports observations on 4 patients with a newly recognized syndrome called the Dubowitz syndrome. Dubowitz provided some follow-up data on the patient he first described in 1965; in addition 3 personally studied patients are presented. To date the known patients have manifested intrauterine growth retardation (with primordial shortness of stature), microcephaly, variable degrees of eczema and mental retardation, and a characteristic facial appearance. It is presumed that the Dubowitz syndrome is recessively inherited.