A rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: A case report

INTRODUCTION: The association of fibular duplication with metatarsal diplopodia is extremely rare with only a few cases reported in the medical literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 4-month-old girl with left tibial agenesis with fibular duplication (mirror foot) and metatarsal diplopodia. CON...

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Autores principales: Khan, Shah Alam, Kumar, Ashok, Varhney, Manish Kumar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394194
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-102
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description INTRODUCTION: The association of fibular duplication with metatarsal diplopodia is extremely rare with only a few cases reported in the medical literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 4-month-old girl with left tibial agenesis with fibular duplication (mirror foot) and metatarsal diplopodia. CONCLUSION: The case report highlights the need for an understanding of this rare congenital anomaly which may be seen only once in the working lifetime of an orthopaedic surgeon.
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spelling pubmed-23733022008-05-07 A rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: A case report Khan, Shah Alam Kumar, Ashok Varhney, Manish Kumar J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: The association of fibular duplication with metatarsal diplopodia is extremely rare with only a few cases reported in the medical literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 4-month-old girl with left tibial agenesis with fibular duplication (mirror foot) and metatarsal diplopodia. CONCLUSION: The case report highlights the need for an understanding of this rare congenital anomaly which may be seen only once in the working lifetime of an orthopaedic surgeon. BioMed Central 2008-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2373302/ /pubmed/18394194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-102 Text en Copyright © 2008 Khan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khan, Shah Alam
Kumar, Ashok
Varhney, Manish Kumar
A rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: A case report
title A rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: A case report
title_full A rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: A case report
title_fullStr A rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: A case report
title_full_unstemmed A rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: A case report
title_short A rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: A case report
title_sort rare association of deformities with diplopodia, aplasia of the tibia and double fibula: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394194
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-102
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