SIRENOMELIA: PARTLY HUMAN, PARTLY MARINE: A CONGENITAL ANOMALY

Sirenomelia: Partly human, partly marine: A congenital anomaly

Sirenomelia or mermaid syndrome is a rare and lethal Bath Seats malformation.It is characterized by a single lower limb with various degrees of fusion, single umbilical artery, urogenital abnormalities, and absent external genitalia.Two major mechanisms proposed in its pathogenesis are the vascular steal hypothesis and the defective blastogenesis h

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