Epidemiology of limb-body wall complex in Japan
β Scribed by Kurosawa, Kenji ;Imaizumi, Kiyoshi ;Masuno, Mitsuo ;Kuroki, Yoshikazu
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 397 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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The spectrum of defects in cases with limb body wall complex (LBWC) is quite variable since other anomalies are also observed in infants with LBWC, and some cases do not have limb deficiencies. Van Allen et al. [Am J Med Genet 1987;28:529-548] proposed that the diagnosis of LBWC (presence of body wa
The term ''Limb Body Wall Defect'' (LBWD) refers to a variable group of congenital defects having in common abdomino-or thoraco-schisis and limb deficiency. Three general pathogenic mechanisms have been proposed for this disorder: amnion rupture, vascular disruption, and embryonic malformation. We h