[Poland's syndrome. Case report].
OBJECTIVE
To report a case of Poland syndrome in a 67-year-old woman.


METHODS
The patient was questioned and examined for a history of malformations characteristic of this syndrome on a routine medical visit. Thorax, bone thorax, and comparative hand X-ray were taken. Mammary ultrasound, mastography, and computed axial tomography were taken also. The right hemithorax showed a thin subcutaneous cell tissue. Axillary alopecia, mammary hypoplasia and areola-nipple complex retraction, hypoplasia of major pectoral muscles was observed. In the right upper limb, there was forearm shortening, hypoplasia of the second phalanx in all five fingers, and absence of distal phalanx in the index finger.


CONCLUSIONS
The patient showed 4 out of the 5 characteristics considered as typical by Hester and Bostwick. In terms of hand anomalies, she was classified as type 1 according to Gausewitz and according with Al-Qaifan, the patient belongs to type 2.
Téllez-Olvera
Alejandro
A
Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Regional de Zona 72, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Estado de México, Mexico.
Romero-Alvarez
Jorge
J
Salgado-Molina
Miguel Angel
MA
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011045:Poland Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*