Introduction:

Osteogenesis imperfecta is a rare hereditary genetic disease characterized by its heterogeneity caused by connective tissue defects with the feature of bone fragility determining multiple fractures, even prenatal ones; also deformities of long bones and spine, and other extra-skeletal symptoms, such as blue sclerotic, dentinogenesis imperfecta, hearing disorder and cardiovascular affectations.

Objective:

To present a patient with clinical and radiological findings of osteogenesis imperfect type III.

Case presentation:

Ecuadorean male child of 4 years old, with a short height, history of multiple fractures from 8 months of age, with spinal deformity demonstrated by radiology due to "S" shaped kyphoscoliosis and vertebral fractures, with progressive deformity in long bones. The boy has suffered 16 fractures, he does not wander, and he is sensory present, oriented in time and space, with normal cognitive development for his age. The bone fragility of the child according to the phenotype classifies in the type III diagnosis of osteogenesis imperfecta, which is progressive and invalidating due to bone deformities and multiple fractures evidenced in imaging tests, without changes in the color of sclerotics and of presumably dominant inheritance.

Conclusions:

The clinical and radiological description of osteogenesis imperfecta, which is little-known pathology, corresponding to type III phenotype is reported in a 4-year-old boy who, due to his involvement, has a short height and does not wander as a consequence of the severity of bone affectations with fractures in long bones and vertebrae, mainly produced by the fragility of the bones due to his genetic disease.

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