title: New variant of acro-renal field defect.
abstract: We describe two patients with a new variant of acro-renal field defect. The first was a full-term, small-for-gestational-age female infant who showed preaxial polydactyly of the right hand and horseshoe kidney on abdominal ultrasonographic examination. In addition, there was a single umbilical artery and some mild facial errors of morphogenesis. The second patient, a full-term male infant, had horseshoe kidney and left hand ectrodactyly. Various renal abnormalities have been described in the literature, but there are no reports on horseshoe kidney as part of acro-renal field defect. We suggest that acro-renal field defect should not be regarded as a definitive diagnosis, but only as a starting point for the search for various conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neonatology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. merlobp@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Oded
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Scheuerman
authors.forename: Gadi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Horev
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Merlob
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006226:Hand Deformities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D017689:Polydactyly / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011859:Radiography