Hemimelia
Other names	Longitudinal meromelia

Terminal defect of an arm with transverse, incomplete hemimelia
Specialty	Medical genetics

Hemimelia is a birth defect consisting in unilateral or bilateral underdevelopment of the distal part of the lower or upper limb.^[1] The affected bone may be shortened or not develop at all.^[2]^[3]

Types of hemimelia

Transverse hemimelia is a congenital absence of part or all of a limb (including hand or foot) and is called amelia when the entire limb is missing.^[2]^[4] Paraxial hemimelia means partial absence of one of the elements of the limb in the longitudinal axis (in phocomelia there is no complete absence of a part of the limb).^[2]

Sub types of hemimelia are the following:

Fibular hemimelia, Congenital longitudinal deficiency of the fibula or fibular longitudinal meromelia^[5]
Tibial hemimelia, Congenital longitudinal deficiency of the tibia, Congenital aplasia and dysplasia of the tibia with intact fibula, Congenital longitudinal deficiency of the tibia or tibial longitudinal meromelia^[6]
Radial hemimelia, Congenital longitudinal deficiency of the radius, radial clubhand, radial longitudinal meromelia or radial ray agenesis^[7]
Ulnar hemimelia, Congenital longitudinal deficiency of the ulna, ulnar clubhand or ulnar longitudinal meromelia^[8]

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Classification

Congenital malformations and deformations of musculoskeletal system / musculoskeletal abnormality

Appendicular
limb / dysmelia

Arms

clavicle / shoulder	Cleidocranial dysostosis Sprengel's deformity Wallis–Zieff–Goldblatt syndrome
hand deformity	Madelung's deformity Clinodactyly Oligodactyly Polydactyly

Leg

hip	Hip dislocation / Hip dysplasia Upington disease Coxa valga Coxa vara
knee	Genu valgum Genu varum Genu recurvatum Discoid meniscus Congenital patellar dislocation Congenital knee dislocation
foot deformity	varus Club foot Pigeon toe valgus Flat feet Pes cavus Rocker bottom foot Hammer toe

Either / both

fingers and toes	Polydactyly / Syndactyly Webbed toes Arachnodactyly Cenani–Lenz syndactylism Ectrodactyly Brachydactyly Stub thumb
reduction deficits / limb	Acheiropodia Ectromelia Phocomelia Amelia Hemimelia
multiple joints	Arthrogryposis Larsen syndrome RAPADILINO syndrome

Axial

Skull and face

Craniosynostosis	Scaphocephaly Oxycephaly Trigonocephaly
Craniofacial dysostosis	Crouzon syndrome Hypertelorism Hallermann–Streiff syndrome Oto-palato-digital syndrome Treacher Collins syndrome
other	Macrocephaly Platybasia Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia Dolichocephaly Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome Plagiocephaly Saddle nose

Vertebral column

Thoracic skeleton

ribs:	Cervical Bifid
sternum:	Pectus excavatum Pectus carinatum
other:	Poland syndrome

Congenital abnormality syndromes

Congenital abnormality syndromes
Craniofacial	Acrocephalosyndactyly Apert syndrome Carpenter syndrome Pfeiffer syndrome Saethre–Chotzen syndrome Sakati–Nyhan–Tisdale syndrome Bonnet–Dechaume–Blanc syndrome Other Baller–Gerold syndrome Cyclopia Goldenhar syndrome Moebius syndrome Pierre Robin sequence
Short stature	1q21.1 deletion syndrome Aarskog–Scott syndrome Cockayne syndrome Cornelia de Lange syndrome Dubowitz syndrome Noonan syndrome Robinow syndrome Silver–Russell syndrome Seckel syndrome Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome Snyder–Robinson syndrome Turner syndrome
Limbs	Adducted thumb syndrome Holt–Oram syndrome Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome Nail–patella syndrome Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome Gastrulation/mesoderm: Caudal regression syndrome Ectromelia Sirenomelia VACTERL association
Overgrowth syndromes	Bannayan–Riley–Ruvalcaba syndrome Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome Benign symmetric lipomatosis Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome Neurofibromatosis type I Perlman syndrome Proteus syndrome Sotos syndrome Tatton-Brown–Rahman syndrome Weaver syndrome
Laurence–Moon–Bardet–Biedl	Bardet–Biedl syndrome Laurence–Moon syndrome
Combined/other, known locus	2 (Feingold syndrome) 3 (Zimmermann–Laband syndrome) 4/13 (Fraser syndrome) 8 (Branchio-oto-renal syndrome, CHARGE syndrome) 12 (Keutel syndrome, Timothy syndrome) 15 (Marfan syndrome) 19 (Donohue syndrome) Multiple Fryns syndrome

Classification	D ICD-10: Q71.8 Q72.8 Q73.8
External resources	Orphanet: 2130