Limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report

We report the case of a male, low birth weight, stillborn fetus of 36 weeks gestation with limb body wall complex. An interesting and rare feature noted in the propositus was the absence of the left subclavian artery and complete absence of the left upper limb. These findings seem to favor the vascu...

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Autores principales: Plakkal, Nishad, John, Joseph, Jacob, Sajini Elizabeth, Chithira, J, Sampath, Sowmya
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/PMC2526069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18699998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-86
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author Plakkal, Nishad
John, Joseph
Jacob, Sajini Elizabeth
Chithira, J
Sampath, Sowmya
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description We report the case of a male, low birth weight, stillborn fetus of 36 weeks gestation with limb body wall complex. An interesting and rare feature noted in the propositus was the absence of the left subclavian artery and complete absence of the left upper limb. These findings seem to favor the vascular theory in the pathogenesis of this condition.
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spelling pubmed-25260692008-08-28 Limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report Plakkal, Nishad John, Joseph Jacob, Sajini Elizabeth Chithira, J Sampath, Sowmya Cases J Case Report We report the case of a male, low birth weight, stillborn fetus of 36 weeks gestation with limb body wall complex. An interesting and rare feature noted in the propositus was the absence of the left subclavian artery and complete absence of the left upper limb. These findings seem to favor the vascular theory in the pathogenesis of this condition. BioMed Central 2008-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2526069/ /pubmed/18699998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-86 Text en Copyright © 2008 Plakkal 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Plakkal, Nishad
John, Joseph
Jacob, Sajini Elizabeth
Chithira, J
Sampath, Sowmya
Limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report
title Limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report
title_full Limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report
title_fullStr Limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report
title_short Limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report
title_sort limb body wall complex in a still born fetus: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18699998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-86
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