Bilateral radial deficiency with lower limb involvement

✍ Scribed by Spranger, Stephanie; Weber, Michael; Tröger, Jochen; Tariverdian, Gholamali; Opitz, John M.

• Book ID: 101213044
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 23 KB
• Volume: 63
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-7299
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19960503)63:1<193::aid-ajmg34>3.0.co;2-h

✦ Synopsis

W e describe a 10-month-old boy with an unclassified form of radial aplasia with absent thumbs, tibia hypo/-aplasia, and partial absence of toes. Only a few cases with similar limb deficiencies have been published. W e try to classify the malformations on the basis of embryological considerations and discuss possible differential diagnosis.