Introduction: We reported an extremely rare foot deformity in Bartsocas-Pappas syndrome. This patient family is from Van that is a city in the east part of Turkey and the family is Turkish origin. In literature review we find only two cases resembling to this deformity.
Case Presentation: A 20-day-old infant with an extremely rare type lower extremity anomaly. There was a skin band between the syndactylia 2nd and 3rd toes of the right and left feet.
Conclusion: This deformity resembles to a ring. We could not find a specific name for this anomaly. Therefore we want to advise a name "ring leg" deformity to describe this deformity.
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Eur J Med Genet
November 2009
Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Yuzuncu Yil University, Medical Faculty, Van, Turkey.
Introduction: We reported an extremely rare foot deformity in Bartsocas-Pappas syndrome. This patient family is from Van that is a city in the east part of Turkey and the family is Turkish origin. In literature review we find only two cases resembling to this deformity.
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