STAR Syndrome

STAR syndrome is a very rare syndrome that affects many organs. “STAR” is an acronym for the primary features of the disease: Syndactyly, Telecanthus, Anogenital malformations, and Renal malformations. In 1996, Green et al. described the first cases in a mother and daughter. The patients shared almost similar congenital malformations; the mother had anal stenosis, a rectovaginal fistula, clitoral hypertrophy, a pelvic right kidney, and syndactyly of both feet; and her daughter also had the same anal, clitoral, and foot anomalies, a solitary pelvic kidney, and no fistula (Green et al. 1996). To date, only 13 cases were reported in the literature who were all females (Boczek et al. 2017).