= WEISMANN-NETTER SYNDROME

[Robert-Julius Weismann-Netter (1894–1980)]

= congenital painless nonprogressive bilateral anterior leg bowing

Age: beginning in early childhood

• may be accompanied by mental retardation, goiter, anemia
  • anterior bowing of tibia + fibula, bilaterally, symmetrically at middiaphysis
  • thickening of posterior tibial + fibular cortices
  • minor radioulnar bowing
  • kyphoscoliosis
  • extensive dural calcification

DDx: Luetic saber shin (bowing at lower end of tibia + anterior cortical thickening)