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Spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome (with a posterior midline unsegmented bar)

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Spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome (SSS) is characterised by malsegmentation of the thoracic spine and carpal/tarsal fusions. A unilateral or bilateral unsegmented bar may be present in the thoracic spine. Presenting clinical signs are congenital scoliosis early in life, and shortening of the trunk with scoliosis and/or lordosis in older children. We report a 13-year-old girl with SSS and a midline unsegmented bar running along the spinal processes of T3 to L2 and extending into the posterior vertebral elements.

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  1. Service d’orthopedie infantile, Hospital d’Enfants, Tunis, Tunisia

    A. Al Kaissi, M. Ben Ghachem, N. Nassib & F. Ben Chehida

  2. Department of Medical Imaging, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead NSW 2145, Sydney, Australia

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Al Kaissi, A., Ghachem, M.B., Nassib, N. et al. Spondylocarpotarsal synostosis syndrome (with a posterior midline unsegmented bar). Skeletal Radiol 34, 364–366 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-004-0869-4

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