A seven-month old female presented with left tibial hemimelia (or congenital tibial aplasia; Weber type VIIb, Jones et al type 1a), seven-toed preaxial polydactyly, and severe club foot (congenital talipes equinovarus). Definitive amputation surgery disarticulated the lower limb at the knee. This case report describes the anatomical findings of a systematic post-amputation examination of the lo...

L'abdomen en prune est un terme figuratif pour 1'apparence ridee de l'abdomen par agenese de la musculature abdominale, qui s'associe invariablement avec des abnormalites des voies urinaires et moins souvent avec des malformations cardiaques, malrotation de Pintestin et talipes equinovarus. Ce rare syndrome existe presqu'uniquement chez les hommes et lc dices survient frequemment pendant l'enfa...

Clubfoot (talipes equinovarus) is a condition well known since the time of Hippocrates. Numerous conservative treatments have been introduced for this condition; few are still in favour. Conservative treatment was used in our department up to the third month of age. The indication for surgery was failure to correct or maintain the correction after conservative treatment. We report on 134 childr...

Idiopathic Congenital Talipes Equinovarus, or clubfoot, is a common developmental disorder of the foot, affecting at least 2 in every 1000 live births in Scotland. The defect is characterised by a twisting of the foot and loss of calf muscle. Diagnosis is usually made on postnatal examination and treatment; usually a series of foot manipulations, takes place within the first year. Treatment can...

Idiopathic Congenital Talipes Equinovarus, or clubfoot, is a common developmental disorder of the foot, affecting at least 2 in every 1000 live births in Scotland. The defect is characterised by a twisting of the foot and loss of calf muscle. Diagnosis is usually made on postnatal examination and treatment; usually a series of foot manipulations, takes place within the first year. Treatment can...

The propositus (Fig. 1) was the result of a 3rd pregnancy of the mother; she had had 2 phenotypically normal children from a previous marriage. The pregnancy was noted for small fetal size, lack of intrauterine movements, and recurrent small antipartum haemorrhages. Urinary oestriol excretion was low throughout the pregnancy. The child was delivered by emergency caesarean section when the mothe...

Introduction Idiopathic congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) is the most common limb deformity. Non-operative intervention using Ponseti method has shown to be superior soft tissue release and become gold standard for first-line treatment. However, numerous deviations from protocol are still reported following incomplete correction or deformity relapse. Significant variation in treatment proto...

A metacentric bisatellited microchromosome was detected in all metaphases from an amniotic culture performed because of maternal age. A wide-ranging survey of the literature failed to disclose any consistent anomaly associated with such a marker, but did reveal that the clinical picture of patients manifesting it could range from complete normality through mental retardation to a variety of def...