Ellis-van Creveld syndrome in identical twins.

Abstract

In 1933 McIntosh (Holt and McIntosh, 1933) described abnormal findings in a girl who had hereditary ectodermal dysplasia, associated with polydactylism and chondrodystrophy. Ellis and van Creveld (1940) described two additional cases, thereby concluding that this was a new syndrome with which their names have since been eponymously associated.