Fibrochondrogenesis

Abstract

Fibrochondrogenesis is a rare lethal short-limb skeletal dysplasia. Till now only fifteen cases have been reported since Lazzaroni-Fossati first described it in 1978. Hence reported a case of fibrochondrogenesis in a child born to a consanguineously married couple with characteristic physical and radiological features and discuss the incidence, inheritence, ultrasonographic, clinical, radiological and pathological characteristics of this disorder.