[Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. Contribution of echography to prenatal diagnosis. Apropos of a case]

The Ellis Van Creveld syndrome gives rise to a dwarf showing chondroectodermal dysplasia. We report a case where the diagnosis was made antenatally by ultrasound. It showed that the length of the femur was shorter than the mean for the gestational age and it also showed six fingers. A review of the literature demonstrates that it is possible to make the diagnosis of skeletal dysplasia prenatally using ultrasound.