Ectodermal dysplasia (ED) is a congenital syndrome characterised mainly by abnormalities of two or more tissues of ectodermal origin namely skin, nails, hair and teeth. Two brothers of 14 years and 10 years of age respectively reported with chief complaint of multiple missing teeth. Thorough medical and dental examinations were performed and findings were in accordance with the typical features...

The clinical, cytogenetic and dermatoglyphic findings in a patient with a ring chromosome 21 are presented. This anomaly acts as a deletion of chromosomal material and results in specific congenital defects. A comparison is made with 24 cases of deletions involving chromosome 21 described in the literature. Six of these have been studied by means of recently developed chromosome banding techniq...

Four male members of a family are known to have congenital mitral and aortic insufficiency, a fifth male has congenital mitral insufficiency only, and a sixth male had congenital heart disease by history. The involved males comprised all males in three generations of this family. Chromosomal and dermatoglyphic studies of the two living affected males are normal. The involvement of males in this...

The term dermatoglyphics is derived from the ancient Greek words ‘derma’ means skin and ‘glyph’ meaning carving. Dermatoglyphics is the scientific study of patterns of epidermal ridges present on fingers, palms, toes and soles. 1 Although Cummins and Midlo coined the term dermatoglyphics, it started as a scientific discipline with the publication of Purkinje’s thesis and Galton’s classic book “...

KS is a rare disorder discovered by Japanese doctors Norio Niikawa and Yoshikazu Kuroki in 1981. The syndrome received its name due to the resemblance of the characteristic facial features of patients to the make-up used in the traditional Japanese Kabuki play.1 Niikawa and Kuroki independently described the syndrome in a subset of ten Japanese children that were reported to have distinctive fa...

This paper describes a new technique to inspect dermal ridges on the dermal surface instead of the epidermal surface. The dermal surface was exposed by chemical treatment and stained with toluidine blue. Dermal ridges are observable by the metachromatic effect of the reagent, which might suggest a close relationship between morphological characteristics and quantitative variations of biochemica...

Dermatoglyphics began with dactyloscopy in Hungary in the early 1900s. Since then, the interest in several fields of dermatoglyphics has arisen, e. g. paleodermatoglyphics, heredity of the dermatoglyphic traits, dermatoglyphics in medical disorders, dermatoglyphics of different populations in Hungary, dermatoglyphics in questioned paternity as well as the study of the palmar and plantar creases...