Congenital Skeletal Limb Deficiencies

Until the presemit time, child amputees have been classified as having either-mnon-congemnital or congenital amputations. Within the group of congenital aminpu-tations, both the so-called true amputation (limb-bud arrest) arid the gross limb abnormality are encountered. In the fields of embryology and teratology, limb deficiencies are described with a terminology inn which the terms themselves am-c descriptive as are the implications of these termins. Writers inn the field of on’tho-paedic suigen-y have failed to adopt a relatively consistent amid accurate nonneni-clature-omne which is clear amid concise, as compared with the commomn vague phrase congenital amputation of the... The classification to be pm-esemnted has been evolved in ann endeavor to stand-ardize nomenclature. It does riot cover reduplication of limbs. In the past fifteemn years, a growing interest in the care of the child amputee has been manifested by the increasing number of amputee clinnics that devote their efforts exclusively to the child. These centers have progressively imncreased the number of patiemnts cared for with single or multiple limb deficiencies on