Langer's syndrome
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Hereditary skeletal dysplasia of short-limbed dwarfism with mesomelic micromelia, hypoplasia of ulna, fibula and hypoplastic mandibula. The symptoms are present at birth. Inheritance is autosomal recessive.
Léri-Weill mesomelic dwarfism, Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis, and Lamy-Bienefeld syndrome are the same entity. This is a skeletal dysplasia combining dorsal subluxation of the distal end of the ulna (Madelung deformity) with mesomelic short stature. It is entered as Léri-Weill syndrome, under André Léri, French physician, 1875-1930.
Bibliography
- L. O. Langer Jr:
Mesomelic dwarfism of the hypoplastic ulna, fibula, mandible type. Radiology, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1967, 89: 654-660.
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