Acromicry

Classification according to ICD-10
Q79.8	Other congenital malformations of the musculoskeletal system
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The acromicry , from ancient Greek ἄκρος akros , German 'extremely' and ancient Greek. μικρός mikrós , German 'small', 'tight' , describes a very rare congenital change with abnormally small acras and parts of the skeletal system , i.e. small face and small hands. The opposite is known as acromegaly .

The term is no longer used today for an independent clinical picture, but for a symptom .

Acromicias occurs in the following syndromes :

also with Armfield syndrome .

literature

X. Cortada, BG Kousseff, GM Matsumoto: Constricted maxilla and mandible, scoliosis, bowed radii, ulnar hypoplasia, acromicria and microcephaly with mental retardation – a new autosomal recessive syndrome? In: Birth defects original article series. Vol. 18, No. 3B, 1982, pp. 197-202, PMID 7139102 .
H. Goldstein: Treatment of congenital acromicria syndrome in children. In: Archives of pediatrics. Vol. 73, No. 5, May 1956, pp. 153-167, PMID 13328336 .
O. Helve: Acromicria, an interesting clinical picture. In: Acta endocrinologica. Vol. 5, No. 6, 1950, pp. 387-396, PMID 14799113 .

Individual evidence

↑ Willibald Pschyrembel : Clinical Dictionary , 266th, updated edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033997-0, keyword acromics
↑ Entry on acromics in Flexikon , a wiki from DocCheck
↑ Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .
↑ Dysplasia, acromicric. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).
↑ Short stature, more geophysical. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).
↑ Polyneuropathy - mental retardation - acromicria - premature menopause. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).

[1] Willibald Pschyrembel : Clinical Dictionary , 266th, updated edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033997-0, keyword acromics

[flexikon-2] Entry on acromics in Flexikon , a wiki from DocCheck

[Leiber-3] Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .

[4] Dysplasia, acromicric. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).

[5] Short stature, more geophysical. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).

[6] Polyneuropathy - mental retardation - acromicria - premature menopause. In: Orphanet (Rare Disease Database).