A New Variant of Type I Congenital Ulna Deficiency With the Normal Thumb, Webspace, Hand, and Elbow

Unilateral congenital ulna deficiency of wrist and forearm is rare. It is associated with cartilaginous ulnar anlage, absence of ulnar digits, carpus, partially or completely absent ulna, radiohumeral synostosis, syndactyly, and thumb abnormalities. Various classifications have described this presen...

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Autores principales: Jerome, Terrence Jose, Prabu, Ramesh, Terrence, Thirumagal Kuppusamy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7826292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33510979
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12261
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description Unilateral congenital ulna deficiency of wrist and forearm is rare. It is associated with cartilaginous ulnar anlage, absence of ulnar digits, carpus, partially or completely absent ulna, radiohumeral synostosis, syndactyly, and thumb abnormalities. Various classifications have described this presentation. We report a new variant of type I congenital ulnar deficiency in wrist and forearm with a normal thumb, first webspace, hand, wrist, and elbow in an 18-year-old girl.
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spelling pubmed-78262922021-01-27 A New Variant of Type I Congenital Ulna Deficiency With the Normal Thumb, Webspace, Hand, and Elbow Jerome, Terrence Jose Prabu, Ramesh Terrence, Thirumagal Kuppusamy Cureus Pediatrics Unilateral congenital ulna deficiency of wrist and forearm is rare. It is associated with cartilaginous ulnar anlage, absence of ulnar digits, carpus, partially or completely absent ulna, radiohumeral synostosis, syndactyly, and thumb abnormalities. Various classifications have described this presentation. We report a new variant of type I congenital ulnar deficiency in wrist and forearm with a normal thumb, first webspace, hand, wrist, and elbow in an 18-year-old girl. Cureus 2020-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7826292/ /pubmed/33510979 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12261 Text en Copyright © 2020, Jerome et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Jerome, Terrence Jose
Prabu, Ramesh
Terrence, Thirumagal Kuppusamy
A New Variant of Type I Congenital Ulna Deficiency With the Normal Thumb, Webspace, Hand, and Elbow
title A New Variant of Type I Congenital Ulna Deficiency With the Normal Thumb, Webspace, Hand, and Elbow
title_full A New Variant of Type I Congenital Ulna Deficiency With the Normal Thumb, Webspace, Hand, and Elbow
title_fullStr A New Variant of Type I Congenital Ulna Deficiency With the Normal Thumb, Webspace, Hand, and Elbow
title_full_unstemmed A New Variant of Type I Congenital Ulna Deficiency With the Normal Thumb, Webspace, Hand, and Elbow
title_short A New Variant of Type I Congenital Ulna Deficiency With the Normal Thumb, Webspace, Hand, and Elbow
title_sort new variant of type i congenital ulna deficiency with the normal thumb, webspace, hand, and elbow
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7826292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33510979
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12261
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