When to See a Specialist About Acrorenal syndrome
By Dr. Uma Turner, MD · · Genetic Medicine
Patients often ask us about acrorenal syndrome. Here is what our Genetic Medicine clinicians want you to know.
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Topic: acrorenal syndrome. A syndrome characterized by limb defects, usually bilateral, like cleft hands or feet and longitudinal defects involving radius or ulna, tibia or fibula and renal anomalies which include agenesis, hypoplasia and rarely polycystic kidneys. Additional malformations may involve the oro-mandibular region, the trachea and lungs, skin derivatives including sweat glands, mammary glands, the uterus, vas…
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