title: [Foetus from Varna with thanatophoric nanism type 2].
abstract: The first Bulgarian case of Thanatophoric nansim of foetus is presented, which is diagnosed by foetopathological autopsy, histological and postnatal X-ray examination.
  
  
  METHODS
  The foetus is a result of a still-birth. X-ray examination, autopsy of the foetus and microscopic examination were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A female foetus, 28 gestation week, with micromelia, relative macrocrania with configuration "three leaved clover" type, shortened median cranial fossa, hypertrophy of temporal lobes of hemispheres with radial convolutions. Hypoplasia of the lungs. X-ray examination: Platispondylia, rectilinear femoral diaphysis, pelvis--square, lowered arches of acetabulums with lateral processes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present examination establishes the importance of the application of foetopathological autopsy as a routine method in all spontaneous abortions and still-births in view of control of hypo- and achondrodysplasias.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kitova
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Minkov
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001344:Autopsy; D004392:Dwarfism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D050497:Stillbirth; D055815:Young Adult