Poland sequence: Series of two cases and brief review of the literature

Poland sequence is a rare congenital anomaly involving the chest wall and arm, displaying differing degrees of severity, functional and aesthetic impairments. Here we report a series of two cases that presented to us with this anomaly. These cases illustrate, for physicians, the importance of physic...

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Autores principales: Garg, Rajiv, Saheer, S., Gupta, Vaibhav, Mehra, Sumit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22558018
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.94535
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description Poland sequence is a rare congenital anomaly involving the chest wall and arm, displaying differing degrees of severity, functional and aesthetic impairments. Here we report a series of two cases that presented to us with this anomaly. These cases illustrate, for physicians, the importance of physical diagnosis and reinforce the practice of looking for additional anomalies when one is discovered.
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spelling pubmed-33392022012-05-03 Poland sequence: Series of two cases and brief review of the literature Garg, Rajiv Saheer, S. Gupta, Vaibhav Mehra, Sumit Ann Thorac Med Case Report Poland sequence is a rare congenital anomaly involving the chest wall and arm, displaying differing degrees of severity, functional and aesthetic impairments. Here we report a series of two cases that presented to us with this anomaly. These cases illustrate, for physicians, the importance of physical diagnosis and reinforce the practice of looking for additional anomalies when one is discovered. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3339202/ /pubmed/22558018 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.94535 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Thoracic Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Poland sequence: Series of two cases and brief review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22558018
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1737.94535
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