Abstract
Campomelic dysplasia (CD) is a rare skeletal dysplasia. The incidence, reported in the literature, is 0.05–0.09 per 10000 live, births. During the period December 1985–December 1990 there were 18350 live births with 4 cases of CD at Aker University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. This gives an incidence of CD in our observation period of 2.2 per 10000. Eliminating our first case, because of Pakistani decent, the total incidence is 1.6 per 10000 among Norwegian infants which is much higher than the incidence previously mentioned. Perhaps CD is under-reported and a high proportion of patients remain undiagnosed. We present four cases and discuss the incidence.
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campomelic dysplasia
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Normann, E.K., Pedersen, J.C., Stiris, G. et al. Campomelic dysplasia — an underdiagnosed condition?. Eur J Pediatr 152, 331–333 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01956747
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