Introduction:

Proteus syndrome is a rare congenital hamartoma syndrome with neuroectodermal manifestations of progressive kind and a degree of variable severity.

Objective:

To present a clinical case where facial diysmorphias, the excessive growth of a hemicara, a macro-skull, and neurological manifestations are combined.

Case presentation:

A 10-month-old female infant with a history of risky pregnancy, daughter of a teenage mother, with fetal exposure to tobacco, marijuana and alcohol. She was born with macrocephaly, facial dysmorphia with right hemihypertrophy, hyperpigmented nevus that started with infantile spasms from the first month of life; and West syndrome of structural etiology with right hemimegalencephaly was diagnosed. The patient meets the clinical criteria of Proteus syndrome and she had a favorable response to the combined treatment of adrenocorticotropic hormone and Vigabatrin with control of spasms, improvement of hypsarrhythmia and psychomotor development.

Conclusions:

Proteus syndrome is characterized by exaggerated growth in various tissues (epidermal, connective, bone, adipose and endothelial) during embryogenesis, so that clinical manifestations are usually evident from birth or in the first years of life. It is related with a group of cases with malformations of the central nervous system and West syndrome.

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