Blood, 1959, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 374-377.
© 1959 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
Congenital Hypoplastic Thrombocytopenia
with Skeletal Deformities in Siblings
SIDNEY SHAW 1 and
R. A. M. OLIVER 1
1 Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, University of London, England.
The occurrence of congenital hypoplastic thrombocytopenia with absent
radii is described in siblings.
Both presented with hemorrhagic manifestations within a few weeks of birth
and the first died at the age of six and a half months.
Reference is made to two other examples in siblings.
These abnormalities are considered as due to a genetic defect and the cases
are probably variants of Fanconis syndrome.
Submitted on June 19, 1958
Accepted on July 17, 1958