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This male infant was first brought to attention in the neonatal period because he presented clinical and radiological evidence of multiple bone deformities. He was readmitted at 2 1/2 months for hydrocephaly, hepatosplenomegaly and poor somatic and psychomotor development. In addition, coarse facies, corneal opacities and stiff joints were noticed. Bone X-ray anomalies and vacuolized lymphocytes supported the clinical presumption of lysosomal storage disorder. The diagnosis of multiple sulphatase deficiency rests on the presence of MPS and sulphatides in the urine, the finding of a mixed storage process in conjunctival biopsy and the demonstration of deficiencies in arylsulphatases A, B, C, iduronate sulphatase and heparan sulphatase in serum, leukocytes and cultured fibroblasts.
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Vamos, E., Liebaers, I., Bousard, N. et al. Multiple sulphatase deficiency with early onset. J Inherit Metab Dis 4, 103–104 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02263612
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