[Werner's syndrome]

We describe a 35 year old woman with shortness of stature, skin and muscle atrophy of the face and lower limbs, peripheric arthropathies, feet deformity, plantar hiperqueratosis, alopecia, canities, bilateral cataracts and bitonal voice. At the age of 21, the patient started having plantar hiperqueratosis, deformity and stiffness of the feet joints. At the time of the examination the patient had neither diabetes mellitus, nor peripheric arteriopathies or neoplasms. There wasn't a family history and the parents weren't consanguinous.