A four year old boy was brought by his parents with complaints of deformities of both hands and feet and poor scholastic performance
Radiographs of both hands and feet show polydactyly and complex syndactyly with radial curvature of the thumb The distal phalanges of third and fourth digits of right hand are fused.
Apert syndrome is named after French pediatrician Eugène Apert (1868–1940), who described the condition in 1906. However, some reports suggest that Dr. Wheaton first described the condition in 1894