Inactivating mutations in ESCO2 cause SC phocomelia and Roberts syndrome: no phenotype-genotype correlation.

Tetra- phocomelia with multiple malformations: X-linked amelia, or Roberts syndrome, or DKphocomelia syndrome?

Phocomelia can be caused by a genetic abnormality, but it is rare.

Documented examples of disease of environmental origin in children include phocomelia in infants exposed in utero to thalidomide (Lenz and Knapp 1962); adenocarcinoma of the vagina in girls exposed prenatally to diethylstilbestrol (Herbst et al.

The cute sounding Menke Kinky Hair Syndrome (steel-wool like hair), Angelman (recurrent bouts of laughter) and Cornelia de Lang (synophrys, phocomelia ) were among "Visual Clues that suggest Birth Defects and Genetic Conditions" (p.

The most renowned result was Phocomelia , the name given to the flipper-like limbs which appeared on the children of women who took Thalidomide.

Ms Lapper, who has a condition called phocomelia , said disabled people faced a great deal of discrimination in their search for a job and needed more support from the business world and the government.

"The most renowned result was Phocomelia , the name give to the flipper-like limbs which appeared on the children of women who took Thalidomide."

Women with spina bifida, spinal-cord injury (SCI), and multiple sclerosis (MS) as well as those with transverse myelitis, severe rheumatoid arthritis, myasthenia gravis, cerebral palsy, acondroplasia, Wilson's disease, phocomelia , osteogenesis imperfecta, and hearing and visual impairments have received services.

The son she gave birth to, whom she named Kim Byung Chul, had a congenital birth defect, phocomelia , which left him without a pelvis or legs.

The authors of the Institute of Medicine report discuss marijuana as if it were a drug like thalidomide, with well-established serious toxicity ( phocomelia ) and limited clinical usefulness (leprosy).