Postnatal evaluation and management of a case of suspected skeletal dysplasia

Introduction: Skeletal dysplasia are a heterogenous group of disorders which affect the natural development of skeletal system and manifest as abnormalities of limbs, chest, skull or spine. These are genetic diseases which result in abnormal formation of chondro-osseous tissues. Their prevalence varies from 1:5000 to 1:3000 births with such wide variation primarily because of incomplete evaluation of still births and early neonatal deaths in several studies (1). These disorders contribute to a significant proportion of still births and early neonatal deaths, however several of them have.
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