I get a request from a colleague. In the context of a paläanthropological research project he asked me for a microcephalic skulls of an adult with Down syndrome. In my collection there is not such a skull.
Did you try at the Museum of Medicine (near place Danton, Paris 5) from the University of Paris, or in the historical collections of the Montpellier Médicine University, or else in the paleoanthropological collections of Natural History Museum of Paris?
I have 2 microcephalic skulls in the collection of the Anatomy Museum of the Universityof Valladolid. (Spain)
Hi Barbara, I don't think that there are any DS skeletons, or even an individual skeleton, in a museum collection that has had a diagnosis of DS defined by cytogenetic analysis, let alone one with microcephaly. Don't exist, apart from in the dreams of a couple of anthropologists. Regards, Peter
Hi Barbara, Peter is absolutely right! There is a some probability to receive a skull from a mikrocefalus. But that this same skull belonged also to the patient with DS and this diagnosis was exposed during lifetime - is unbelievable. Though in life everything occurs! For example never thought that the mammoth whom I have dissect and which was 39000 years in permafrost, will have a juicy red meat which, the truth immediately became black!
Dear colleagues, Thank you very much for all these information’s! I will inform my colleague and I think that he will contact some of you. Peter, I think you are complete right with your assumption that you can’t see DS at the skull. For this information you need DNA-analysis. Thank you again and many greetings from the sunny Berlin Barbara Teßmann
nothing like this in the collection of the national museum of natural history in paris.
as far as I know, such a case is not reported in the medical litterature.
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