Sirenomelia in a Cameroonian woman: a case report and review of the literature

Sirenomelia is a rare congenital malformative disorder characterized by fusion of the lower limbs giving a characteristic mermaid-like appearance to the affected foetus. We report a case of sirenomelia occurring in a 19 year old Cameroonian woman following premature rupture of membranes and associat...

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Autores principales: Morfaw, Frederick LI, Nana, Philip N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24627759
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.1-6.v2
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description Sirenomelia is a rare congenital malformative disorder characterized by fusion of the lower limbs giving a characteristic mermaid-like appearance to the affected foetus. We report a case of sirenomelia occurring in a 19 year old Cameroonian woman following premature rupture of membranes and associated cord prolapse. This is the first documented case in this country. We highlight some of the cultural myths associated with this disorder and discuss our findings relative to the present literature and related controversies on its etiopathogenesis.
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spelling pubmed-39176492014-03-12 Sirenomelia in a Cameroonian woman: a case report and review of the literature Morfaw, Frederick LI Nana, Philip N F1000Res Case Report Sirenomelia is a rare congenital malformative disorder characterized by fusion of the lower limbs giving a characteristic mermaid-like appearance to the affected foetus. We report a case of sirenomelia occurring in a 19 year old Cameroonian woman following premature rupture of membranes and associated cord prolapse. This is the first documented case in this country. We highlight some of the cultural myths associated with this disorder and discuss our findings relative to the present literature and related controversies on its etiopathogenesis. F1000Research 2012-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3917649/ /pubmed/24627759 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.1-6.v2 Text en Copyright: © 2012 Morfaw FL et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
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