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Our hosts. We had a delightful small group tour on Saturday. This picture is in front of a statue of Erasmus. |
I had the opportunity to present some of our work and enjoyed the back and forth regarding this information from the widely experienced audience:
1) Data from our study of the prevalence of congenital differences based on the New York State Congenital Malformation Registry.
2) Syndactyly
3) Central Synpolydactyly (poster presentation)
As always, there was a great deal of information shared and I learned much from my colleagues from all over the world.
As always, there was a great deal of information shared and I learned much from my colleagues from all over the world.
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This is my registration badge- I wanted to share the awesome logo. |
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Rotterdam's Erasmus Bridge |
Thank you again to our hosts, Steven and Christianne.
Dear Dr. Charles,
ReplyDeletei would thank you if you could tell me if the transverse bellow-ellbow arrest tends to look like the photograph that is shown at: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_(birth_defect) ? A friend of mine has the exact same defect pictured there, with the same small hand bud. Is this small hand bud usual? That picture was the only of the kind I could find. What is the cause of this? Some mutation? Or a disruption of environmental cause? Is there a risk of recurrence?
Angel,
DeleteThank you for your question. The picture at the Amelia entry is not really Amelia as that means absence of the limb. It is a transverse deficiency or likely a symbrachydactyly- please see my previous posts. We believe the small hand bud is really related to formation of the ectoderm (which is why there may be fingernails) without normal formation of the mesoderm (and therefore the short limb).