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SHORT STATURE
DWARF - PYGMY - GNOME, and, and, ..., HUMAN - HOMUNCULUS
Gallery and Clinical Pearls
Achondroplasia, Midget, ..., Visual Signs, ...
To view a "short stature" person in a clinical perspective, please, focus on body proportions:
- Is the head larger? - Is the root of the nose well-developed? Or is there a "saddle-like nose"?
- Is the forehead prominent? ... Other facial disproportions.
- Are the digits short?
- Are the long bones straight or bent?
- Is the spine straight?
View the pictures again.
Both individuals have the same disorder due to autosomal-dominant mutation.
The phenotype can be diagnosed before or at birth mainly through the presence of signs listed above among others.
Example 1
Example 2
SUGGESTION: consider exploring the links below. The notions, often wrong and demeaning, applied to "little" or "short" persons are vast and unsettling - for starters, ponder what is the difference between a "dwarf" and a "midget".
For medical students, interns, residents, pediatricians, clinicians in general, I recommend you see the galleries in Pandora Word Box and Clinical Eye Openers - without a visual experience and component the diagnosis of "dwarfism" or more correctly - SHORT STATURE SYNDROMES, is virtually impossible.
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