Open AccessReconstruction of bilateral tibial aplasia and split hand-foot syndrome in a father and daughter
Author(s) -
Ali Al Kaissi,
G. Rudolf,
Klaus Klaushofer,
Franz Grill
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.129201
Subject(s) - medicine , aplasia , ankle , daughter , deformity , surgery , foot (prosody) , foot deformity , tibia , linguistics , philosophy , evolutionary biology , biology
Tibial aplasia is of heterogeneous aetiology, the majority of reports are sporadic. We describe the reconstruction procedures in two subjects - a daughter and father manifested autosomal dominant (AD) inheritance of the bilateral tibial aplasia and split hand-foot syndrome.