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Musculoskeletal Diseases > Musculoskeletal Abnormalities > Limb Deformities, Congenital > Ectromelia
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Congenital Abnormalities > Musculoskeletal Abnormalities > Limb Deformities, Congenital > Ectromelia

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Ectromelia  

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Entry terms

  • Congenital Limb Reduction Deformities
  • Congenital Limb Reduction Deformity

Scope note

  • Gross hypo- or aplasia of one or more long bones of one or more limbs. The concept includes amelia, hemimelia, phocomelia, and sirenomelia.

History note

  • 1967(1963); PHOCOMELIA was see under ECTROMELIA 1967-78, was heading 1963-66; SIRENOMELIA was see under ECTROMELIA 1967-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004480

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