Trisomy 13: Patau's Syndrome (A Case Report from Jammu Region of Jammu & Kashmir)

Trisomy 13 is very rare in live-born children. Only a small number of these children survive the first year and very few cases are reported to live longer. Survival time depends partly on the cytogenetic findings whether full trisomy 13 or trisomy 13 mosaicism and partly on the existence of serious somatic malformations. Patau's syndrome is a very rare congenital anomaly. Here is the report of a male child clinically diagnosed as Patau Syndrome and chromosome study showed free Trisomy 13 to be the cause for this rarecongenital anomaly. The child died within a month after birth.