%0 Journal Article
%T Sirenomelia associada a defeitos cong¨ºnitos raros: relato de tr¨ºs casos
%A Lima
%A Maria Ang¨¦lica F. D.
%A Machado
%A Heloisa Novaes
%A Dock
%A Dione Correa de Ara¨²jo
%A Villar
%A Maria Auxiliadora Monteiro
%A Llerena Junior
%A Juan Clinton
%J Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial
%D 2012
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Cl¨ªnica
%R 10.1590/S1676-24442012000400010
%X sirenomelia, an extremely rare congenital defect, is defined as a limb abnormality in which the normally paired lower limbs are replaced by a single midline limb. it is commonly associated with varied genitourinary anomalies. we report three cases of sirenomelia including x-ray documentation of the lower limb. other associated aspects, whose diagnoses were established exclusively through autopsy, included bilateral renal, ureteral and bladder agenesis, rectal atresia, imperforate anus, intra-abdominal testis, absence of external genitalia and other rare congenital abnormalities.
%K sirenomelia
%K malformation
%K pathology.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1676-24442012000400010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en