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Understanding Acromicric dysplasia

By Dr. Eli Dang, MD · · Orthopedics

Patients often ask us about acromicric dysplasia. Here is what our Orthopedics clinicians want you to know.

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Topic: acromicric dysplasia. An osteochondrodysplasia characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance of severe short stature, short hands and feet, joint limitations, mild facial anomalies, skin thickening, and bone abnormalities including delayed bone age, cone-shaped epiphyses, shortened long tubular bones, and ovoid vertebral bodies that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in FBN1 on 15q21.1.

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This article is for general information and does not replace advice from your clinician.