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The Proposed International Terminology for the Classification of Congenital Limb Deficiencies
Author(s) -
H W Kay,
H J Day,
H L Henkel,
L M Kruger,
D W Lamb,
E Marquardt,
R Mitchell,
A B Swanson,
H G Willert
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1975.tb03571.x
Subject(s) - terminology , citation , growing pains , computer science , information retrieval , library science , linguistics , philosophy , development economics , economics
During the past 20 years the treatment of children with limb deficiencies has emerged as a recognizable subspecialty in both medicine and prosthetics. These children can be divided into two broad categories-those whose amputations are acquired as the result of trauma or disease and those who were born with a limb defect or anomaIy. With the first group, classification of the presenting condition usually poses little difficulty either nationally or internationally, as the terms used are common throughout the world. For example, a partial limb loss described as ‘a short-below-elbow-stump’ in English would be reported as a ‘kurzer Unterarmstumpf’ in German, and the translation is straightforward. However, in the case of congenital deficits or anomalies, the situation has been quite the reverse in that different systems of nomenclature are used in d.ifferent parts of the world. In some cases there are even different systems in use within the same country.