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Phocomelia

• Pediatric Pathology (Includes a Photo)
• Just over 30 years ago, Lenz and McBride independently became aware of the link between thalidomide and a pattern of severe limb reduction deformities known as phocomelia...
• The most common birth defect caused by thalidomide is... a condition known as phocomelia
• Phocomelia
• A German in Bonn, Germany, a pediatrician and a geneticist, had been struck by the increase of phocomelia cases in their hospital (about thalidomide)
• More recent victims of phocomelia and thalidomide have also become mouth-painting artists
• Phocomelia
• Long before Merrell could complete its tests, news filtered across the Atlantic from Germany of an outbreak of phocomelia...
• Debendox/retinoic acid causing phocomelia
• Phocomelia
• Roberts-SC phocomelia syndrome
• Phocomelia of upper extremities (fetus at 27 weeks' gestation) (Includes 3D Animation)

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