The Management of Pyromelic Polymelia in a Low-resource Setting: A Case Report

INTRODUCTION: Polymelia is the presence of supernumerary limbs attached to a segment of the body. It occurs in about 6/10,000 live births with 1.1/10,000 cases involving the lower limbs. It has a heterogeneous pathogenesis including incomplete separation of monozygotic twins. CASE REPORT: A 5-month-...

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Autores principales: Konadu-Yeboah, Dominic, Sobotie, Johnny, Boadi, Samuel Twene, Akomea-Agyin, Ebenezer, Davor, Anthony, Okrah, Helena
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Orthopaedic Research Group 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10519300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37753130
http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2023.v13.i09.3876
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author Konadu-Yeboah, Dominic
Sobotie, Johnny
Boadi, Samuel Twene
Akomea-Agyin, Ebenezer
Davor, Anthony
Okrah, Helena
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description INTRODUCTION: Polymelia is the presence of supernumerary limbs attached to a segment of the body. It occurs in about 6/10,000 live births with 1.1/10,000 cases involving the lower limbs. It has a heterogeneous pathogenesis including incomplete separation of monozygotic twins. CASE REPORT: A 5-month-old baby with polymelia associated with ectopic right kidney, anorectal agenesis with a rectovaginal fistula, and right corneal opacity, delivered through cesarean section at 37 weeks, 3-day gestation to a 38-year-old mother. There were no known predisposing factors. CONCLUSION: In the management of polymelia, a thorough clinical and radiological assessment to identify additional anomalies is critical, and early surgical intervention is safe and optimizes survival.
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spelling pubmed-105193002023-09-26 The Management of Pyromelic Polymelia in a Low-resource Setting: A Case Report Konadu-Yeboah, Dominic Sobotie, Johnny Boadi, Samuel Twene Akomea-Agyin, Ebenezer Davor, Anthony Okrah, Helena J Orthop Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Polymelia is the presence of supernumerary limbs attached to a segment of the body. It occurs in about 6/10,000 live births with 1.1/10,000 cases involving the lower limbs. It has a heterogeneous pathogenesis including incomplete separation of monozygotic twins. CASE REPORT: A 5-month-old baby with polymelia associated with ectopic right kidney, anorectal agenesis with a rectovaginal fistula, and right corneal opacity, delivered through cesarean section at 37 weeks, 3-day gestation to a 38-year-old mother. There were no known predisposing factors. CONCLUSION: In the management of polymelia, a thorough clinical and radiological assessment to identify additional anomalies is critical, and early surgical intervention is safe and optimizes survival. Indian Orthopaedic Research Group 2023-09 2023-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10519300/ /pubmed/37753130 http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2023.v13.i09.3876 Text en Copyright: © Indian Orthopaedic Research Group https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms
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Konadu-Yeboah, Dominic
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Boadi, Samuel Twene
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Davor, Anthony
Okrah, Helena
The Management of Pyromelic Polymelia in a Low-resource Setting: A Case Report
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title_short The Management of Pyromelic Polymelia in a Low-resource Setting: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10519300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37753130
http://dx.doi.org/10.13107/jocr.2023.v13.i09.3876
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