title: Unusual fan shaped ossification in a female fetus with radiological features of boomerang dysplasia.
abstract: We report on a female fetus of 24 weeks whose clinical and radiological findings were compatible with boomerang dysplasia (BD). However, histopathology was unusual with a lateral fan shaped diaphyseal ossification. This has never been described either in typical atelosteogenesis I (AT-I) or in BD. The purpose of this report is to find out if this condition is a separate lethal bone dysplasia or another histological feature of the nosological group of AT-I and BD.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pédiatrie-Génétique Médicale, CHU de Rennes, Hôpital Pontchaillou, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Odent
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Loget
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Le Marec
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Delezoïde
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maroteaux
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010009:Osteochondrodysplasias / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography