Unilateral congenital absence of the calf muscle.
Congenital absence of muscles is a rare occurrence. We are reporting a 2-year 10-month-old African-American girl with congenital unilateral absence of the muscles of the posterior compartment of the calf suspected by clinical examination and confirmed with magnetic resonance imaging.
Flynn
John M
JM
Hospital La Concepcion, San German, Puerto Rico. jmflynn@coqui.net
Ramirez
Norman
N
Cornier
Alberto S
AS
Colon-Negron
Edgar
E
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000002:abnormalities*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000002:abnormalities*