PURPOSE Outcome assessment after double level tibial lengthening in patients with dwarfism. METHODS Fourteen patients with dwarfism were analyzed after bilateral simultaneous double level tibial lengthening. RESULTS Average age was 15.1 years. Average lengthening was 13.5 cm. The two levels were lengthened by an average of 7.5 cm proximally and 6.0 cm distally. Concomitant deformities were ...

Diastrophic dwarfism is an unusual variety of short-limb dwarfism characterized by the pathognomic triad of ear calcifications, hitch-hiker thumbs, and severe clubfoot. Other clinical features include joint contractures and subluxations, symphalagism of the fingers, kyphoscoliosis, hip dysplasia, and occasional cleft palate. Radiographic findings include flaring of the metaphyses of tubular bon...

A review of the radiographs of children previously classified as achondroplasiacs revealed six thanatophoric dwarfs. The main radiological differentiating features were the greater degree of shortening of the long bones, including the fibula, the curvature of the femora, the very small size of the thorax and, particularly, the very narrow ossified elements of the vertebral bodies. Perhaps the m...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the MR findings of idiopathic pituitary dwarfism correlated with a clinical history of perinatal abnormalities and abnormal levels of pituitary hormones. MR examinations of 18 patients with pituitary dwarfism were performed; these patients were divided into two groups: those with ectopic posterior lobes (group 1) and those with normal posterior...

Pituitary dwarfism, associated with growth hormone (GH) deficiency, is an autosomal, recessively inherited disorder in shepherd dogs. As outlined in reference [49], pituitary dwarfism is a serious illness and clinical signs are not limited to physical appearance. Instead, the dwarfs suffer from a whole range of clinical manifestations. Without proper treatment, the long-term prognosis is poor. ...

A newborn girl is described with an association of spondylo-acrodysplasia, mild short limbed dwarfism without significant metaphyseal changes, joint dislocations, and severe immune system dysfunction. This association is distinct from other known immuno-osseous dysplasias, including Schimke dysplasia, ADA deficiency with osseous changes, and Omenn phenotype with short limbed dwarfism.

Achondroplasia is a disorder of bone growth that causes the most common type of dwarfism. It belongs to a group of disorders called chondrodystrophies or osteochondrodysplasias. It is a congenital genetic disorder resulting in rhizomedic dwarfism and is the most common skeletal dysplasia. This case report highlights the oral manifestation of a 3 year old male patient with achondroplasia.

1314 deformity with mesomelic dwarfism of both upper and lower limbs. It is. the commonest variety of mesomelic dwarfism(3). Madelung deformity may also be seen associated with diverse disorders such as mucopolysaccharidosis, Turner's syndrome, achondroplasia, dyschondroplasia (Ollier's disease), multiple exostosis and multiple epiphyseal dysplasia. Madelung's original description of the lesion...