Ring Leg Deformity in Bartsocas-Pappas Syndrome

Abstract

Introduction: We reported an extremely rare foot deformity in Bartsocas-Pappas syndrome. This patient family is from Van that is a city in the east part of Turkey and the family is Turkish origin. In literature review we find only two cases resembling to this deformity. Case presentation: A 20-day-old infant with an extremely rare type lower extremity anomaly. There was a skin band between the syndactylia 2nd and 3rd toes of the right and left feet. Conclusion: This deformity resembles to a ring. We could not find a specific name for this anomaly. Therefore we want to advise a name "ring leg" deformity to describe this deformity. (C) 2009 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.