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CASE REPORT
Year : 2013  |  Volume : 19  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 108-110

A case of bilateral tibial hemimelia type VIIa


1 Department of Pediatrics, Sree Balaji Medical College, Chrompet, Chennai, India
2 Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Correspondence Address:
Rashmi Ranjan Das
Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi - 110 029
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-6866.112924

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Congenital absence of tibia is a rare anomaly, and may be total or partial, unilateral or bilateral. Total absence is more frequent than partial, unilateral absence occurs more often than bilateral, with right limb more commonly affected than the left. In partial defect, almost always the distal end of the bone is affected, and of the bilateral cases, there may be total absence on both sides, or total on one side and partial on the other. Males are slightly more commonly affected than the females. Though, the family history is usually negative for congenital abnormalities and other diseases, there is a considerable chance of occurrence of congenital defect of the tibia or of other abnormalities, in near or remote relatives. We report a case of newborn having bilateral tibial hemimelia type VIIa.


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