Achondroplasia is the most common skeletal dysplasia and it combines various complications with normal longevity. Hearing disturbance due to otitis media or an ossicular anomaly is one of the most common complications. Conductive hearing loss is suggested as the most common form of hearing loss. Temporal bone and middle ear structures are distorted in achondroplasia because of rotational change...

The authors report two cases of cervicomedullary decompression of foramen magnum (FM) stenosis in children with achondroplasia using intraoperative computed tomography (iCT). A 14-month-old girl with myelopathy and retarded motor development, and a 10-year-old girl who had already undergone incomplete FM decompression was presented with myelopathy. Both patients underwent decompressive sub-occi...

PURPOSE Thoracolumbar kyphosis (TLK) is described as a common presentation in children with achondroplasia. However, the prevalence and development of TLK are ill-defined, as well as its clinical implications. The goal of this study was to assess the existing evidence on the prevalence and development of TLK from the literature. METHODS A systematic literature review was performed in PubMed, ...

We report a patient with achondroplasia who presented for emergency Caesarean section. Endotracheal intubation was not difficult. The reaction of this patient to drugs such as thiopentone and tubocurarine, judged on body weight basis, was normal.

We carried out an MRI study of the lumbar spine in 15 patients with achondroplasia to evaluate the degree of stenosis of the canal. They were divided into asymptomatic and symptomatic groups. We measured the sagittal canal diameter, the sagittal cord diameter, the interpedicular distance at the mid-pedicle level and the cross-sectional area of the canal and spinal cord at mid-body and mid-disc ...

be demonstrated in every mongol. In ? ed d e cretinism and achondroplasia, the body 18 undersized u to a shortening of the long bones, but these shortened long bones are slender and fairly well formed and show none of the irregularities in growth which characterise the long bones of cretins and achondroplasics. Although mongolism, sporadic cretinism, achondroplasia and rachitis are so markedly ...