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Platyspondyly

Case contributed by Roberto Rafael Ovalle
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Suspicion of scoliosis.

Patient Data

Age: 1
Gender: Female
x-ray

Vertebral bodies with lost of almost its entire height anteriorly and posteriorly throughout the axial skeleton. Lumbar scoliosis. Defect of posterior elements en cervical and dorsal column. Signs fo bilateral developmental dysplasia of the hip.

x-ray

Zoom of lumbar spine for better viewing the lost of height of vertebral bodies.

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