Phocomelia: The Clinical Manifestation, Classification and Surgical Treatment of Korean Patients with Phocomelia / 대한정형외과학회잡지
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
;
: 685-693, 2008.
Article
in Korean
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Phocomelia is an extremely rare congenital anomaly of the upper extremity. There have been no clinical reports about phocomlia in Korea except for five birth reports. We present here the clinical features, classifications and surgical treatments of our phocomelia cases. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
From January 1993 to August 2007, seven patients were diagnosed as having phocomelia in 9 upper extremities at our clinic. Surgical treatments were performed for five patients on their hand anomalies. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records and radiographs of our cases, and we tried to classify them by the previously suggested systems. We evaluated the functional improvement and measured the VAS scale for parental satisfaction with the operative outcomes.RESULTS:
We could not find any problems during the fetal periods or any hereditary features. The bilaterally-affected patients also had deformities of the lower extremity, while the unilaterally-affected patients did not. We couldn't classify our cases according to the Frantz and O'Rahilly system. We found that the classifications suggested by Tytherleigh-Strong and Hooper (2003) and Goldfarb et al. (2005) could be promising alternatives for classification. One upper extremity was classified as type A, one as type B, and 7 as type C by Tytherleigh-Strong and Hooper's system. Using the Goldfarb's system, two upper extremities were classified as proximal radial longitudinal dysplasia, and seven were classified as proximal ulnar longitudinal dysplasia. Three patients who underwent pollicization showed opposition and tip pinch. Two patients who underwent syndactyly division could do lateral pinch. The VAS scale for parental satisfaction with the functional improvement averaged 8.2 postoperatively.CONCLUSION:
The bilateral cases had different clinical features from unilateral ones. Phocomelia could not simply be classified by the Frantz and O'Rahilly system, and it may not be a true transverse intercalary deficiency. We could gain functional improvement after operations on the hand anomalies.
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Main subject:
Parents
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Congenital Abnormalities
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Medical Records
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Retrospective Studies
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Syndactyly
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Lower Extremity
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Upper Extremity
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Parturition
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Ectromelia
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Hand
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Korean
Journal:
The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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