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2002, Number 5

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Acta Ortop Mex 2002; 16 (5)

Polymelia. Case report and revision of literature

García-Espinosa I, García-Cruz R, Huerta-Mendoza H, Cabrera-Hernández R, Merelo-Villafán I, López-Alfonso A

Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 272-275
PDF size: 93.70 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The case of a feminine patient of 7 days is reported of having been born, with lumbo-sacred polimelia to level of L5 and S1, characterized by an extremity inferior malformed, with installation in the lumbo-sacred region, with growth to the right and with presence of bone iliac and of femur, associated with mielomeningolipoma, anchored marrow, equine foot beaches structured right adduct and hypertrophy pyloric. The diagnosis was carried out clinically and you support with the following studies, X-rays later and lateral antero of the spine and of the right foot abdominal ultrasound, urography excretory, lumbo-sacred magnetic resonance, somatosensorial evoked potentials. In the alone world literature cases of polimelia are reported in animals.


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