Congenital agenesis of lumbar vertebrae was diagnosed in a day-old female lamb based on radiology and clinical examinations. There was no neurological deficit in hindlimb and forelimb associated with standing disability. Radiography of the abdominal region revealed absence of lumbar vertebrae. Necropsy confirmed clinical and radiographic results. No other anomaly or agenesis was seen macroscopi...

Congenital agenesis of lumbar vertebrae was diagnosed in a day-old female lamb based on radiology and clinical examinations. There was no neurological deficit in hindlimb and forelimb associated with standing disability. Radiography of the abdominal region revealed absence of lumbar vertebrae. Necropsy confirmed clinical and radiographic results. No other anomaly or agenesis was seen macroscopi...

Caudal regression syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly with characteristic agenesis or dysgenesis of caudal vertebrae varying from isolated partial agenesis of coccyx or entire lumbosacral vertebrae.1,2 It may be associated with congenital anomaly of spinal cord, genitourinary tract, and gastrointestinal tract.3–5 The children with extensive bony defects in caudal regression syndrome may prese...

INTRODUCTION The regression caudal syndrome includes a spectrum of malformations which vary from the symptomless coccygeal agenesis until thoracic vertebrae and sacrococcygeal agenesis with severe neurological deficit; it is associated sometimes with malformations in other organs and systems. We present a case of partial agenesis of sacro and coccix with neuromuscular, sphincter and orthopedist...

This newborn was delivered full term normal vaginal delivery to a mother who had uncontrolled Diabetes. Baby had bilateral hypotonia in lower limbs and a sacral dimple. X-ray show absent vertebrae below 2 lumbar. Lumbosacrococcygeal agenesis is one of the complications of uncontrolled Maternal Diabetes. In general population the incidence of this condition is less than 0.01%. 16% of the patient...

 Background: Excessive lumbar vertebrae translation and rotation in sagittal plane has been attributed as an associated factor of lumbar segmental instability (LSI) and low back pain (LBP). Reduction of these abnormalities improves back pain. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of core stability exercise on the translation and rotation of lumbar vertebrae in sagittal plan...

background: excessive lumbar vertebrae translation and rotation in sagittal plane has been attributed as an associated factor of lumbar segmental instability (lsi) and low back pain (lbp). reduction of these abnormalities improves back pain. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of core stability exercise on the translation and rotation of lumbar vertebrae in sagittal plane in pat...

objective: the aim of this cross-sectional analytic study was to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of panoramic-based indices of the mandible (mental index-mi, mandibular cortical index-mci and panoramic mandibular index-pmi) and to determine their correlation with bone mineral density (bmd) of the femoral neck and lumbar vertebrae (l2-l4) in order to assess the possibility of using these parame...

Sacral agenesis belongs to spectrum of aplastic vertebral malformations ranging from agenesis of coccyx to lower thoracic vertebrae and the term sacral agenesis has been used synonymously with caudal regression syndrome. Higher the defect, severe is the neurological deficit. Mangeau and Leclaire described a patient with ninth thoracic vertebra as the lowest segment(l). Sacral agenesis is more c...

Sirenomelia is a rare congenital anomaly with an incidence of one in 100,000 pregnancies. It is also called as Mermaid Syndrome because of fused leg, giving appearance of mermaid’s tail. The cause of the condition is probably due to abnormalities in gastrulation in caudal segments. It was initially termed caudal regression, but it is clear that structures do not regress, they simply do not form...