[Seckel's syndrome associated with atrial septal defect: a case report and review of the literature in Japan].

Nine-year-old girl who had Seckel's syndrome (bird-headed dwarfism), one of low birth weight dwarfisms, was successfully operated upon for the associated atrial septal defect. To our knowledge, 17 cases with this syndrome have been reported in Japan. Only three cases including our patient had congenital heart disease.