Sirenomelia: Partly human, partly marine: A congenital anomaly

Sirenomelia: Partly human, partly marine: A congenital anomaly

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Sirenomelia or mermaid syndrome is a rare and lethal 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 edgewater shoes mechanisms proposed in its pathogenesis are the vascular here steal hypothesis and the defective blastogenesis hypothesis.Here, we introduce a 24-year-old female first-born neonate with mermaid syndrome.

She had severe oligohydramnios and a history of consumption of some unknown medication for the treatment of alopecia.