INTRODUCTION Most cases of caudal regression are sporadic or associated with gestational/maternal diabetes. The condition is thought to be part of a spectrum including imperforate anus, sacral agenesis and sirenomelia. Infants of diabetic mothers have two to three times the average incidence of congenital anomalies. CASE PRESENTATION We report on a 7-year-old boy from non-consanguineous famil...

We report a case of sirenomelia baby (mermaid syndrome) born to a thirty years old female at 36 weeks of gestation. It is a rare syndrome in which there is fusion of lower limbs. Classification of caudal regression syndrome (CRS) from sirenomelia is still debated. According to some authors, this syndrome should be classified separately from caudal regression syndrome and is likely to be the res...