RT Journal
A1 Brussel JA
T1 COngenital absence of bones of the lower limb
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD March 18
VO 112
IS 11
SP 1050
OP 1052
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.62800110002007a
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.62800110002007a
AB While anomalous conditions, present at birth, of the bones of the leg and foreleg are not rare, they are sufficiently unusual to be reported and should be recorded to maintain accurate statistics in these cases. Unfortunately, the figures of the early eras, particularly those prior to use of the roentgenogram, have been inaccurate chiefly because of the paucity of clinical means to ascertain definite pathologic conditions and, as a result, some of these observations have since been revised. For example, in 1846 Proudfoot (quoted by Cotton and Chute) reported a case of congenital absence of the fibula in which he stated that "... the tibia of the same limb seemed to have a compound fracture at the middle...."Freund1 regards the figures of Nilsonne2 as the most conservative in the review of congenital absence of the femur. The latter collected seventy-two cases up to 1928 and added ten of