[Oculocerebrovertebral syndrome].

After description of the oculovertebral syndrome Weyers-Thier a personal observation is reported. It was characterized by severe cerebral malformations (agenesis of the olfactory lobes, incomplete agenesis of corpus callosum with large sagittal arachnoidal cyst) associated with polycystic brain damage. The relationship of this "oculovertebral syndrome" to the "oculoauriculovertebral syndrome" is discussed. The combination of various malformations in our observation indicates an embryonic lesion between the 4th and 11th week. Additional polycystic brain damage was due to perinatal anoxy. The causal factor of the malformative syndrome remains unknown, but similar lesions were experimentally induced by fetal hypoxia.