Micromelia

Classification according to ICD-10
Q73.8	Other reduction defects of unspecified extremity (s)
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Micromelia , from ancient Greek μικρός mikrós 'small' and μέλος mélos 'limb', is a skeletal dysplasia with congenitally short and clumsy limbs .

distribution

Micromelia can be a symptom of various syndromes and diseases:

Individual evidence

↑ Willibald Pschyrembel : Clinical Dictionary , 266th, updated edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033997-0, keyword micromelia
↑ Entry on Mikromelie in Flexikon , a wiki of the DocCheck company

↑ 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 .

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

[flexikon-2] Entry on Mikromelie in Flexikon , a wiki of the DocCheck company

[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 .