Unusual fan shaped ossification in a female fetus with radiological features of boomerang dysplasia

J Med Genet. 1999 Apr;36(4):330-2.

Abstract

We report on a female fetus of 24 weeks whose clinical and radiological findings were compatible with boomerang dysplasia (BD). However, histopathology was unusual with a lateral fan shaped diaphyseal ossification. This has never been described either in typical atelosteogenesis I (AT-I) or in BD. The purpose of this report is to find out if this condition is a separate lethal bone dysplasia or another histological feature of the nosological group of AT-I and BD.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bone and Bones / abnormalities
  • Bone and Bones / diagnostic imaging
  • Bone and Bones / pathology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Osteochondrodysplasias / diagnostic imaging*
  • Osteochondrodysplasias / genetics
  • Osteochondrodysplasias / pathology
  • Radiography