RT Book, Section
A1 Niemi, Anna-Kaisa
A1 Hudgins, Louanne
A2 Stevenson, David K.
A2 Cohen, Ronald S.
A2 Sunshine, Philip
SR Print(0)
ID 1109799900
T1 Evaluation of Short-Limbed Infants
T2 Neonatology: Clinical Practice and Procedures
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071763769
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1109799900
RD 2024/04/19
AB Evaluation  of  a  newborn  with  short  limbs  is  often  an  urgent  challenge  for  the  pediatrician  and  the  neonatologist  because  of  the  importance  of  recognizing  lethal  neonatal  skeletal  dysplasias,  the  ability  to  provide  adequate  medical  management  in  nonlethal  neonatal  skeletal  dysplasias,  and  the  ability  to  provide  adequate  prognostic  information  to  the  family  during  the  stages  of  the  initial  evaluation.  Sometimes,  the  diagnosis  is  evident  based  on  physical  examination  of  the  newborn,  but  more  often  combined  information  from  prenatal  ultrasounds,  physical  examination  of  the  newborn,  and  skeletal  radiographs  and  other  imaging  studies  is  needed  to  establish  a  definitive  diagnosis.