Presentation
Mother used thalidomide for nausea during pregnancy
Patient Data
Age: 40 years
Gender: Female
From the case:
Thalidomide embryopathy
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Frontal
Obvious skeletal malformations of all extremities such as absence of the forearm bones (phocomelia) and radial ray anomalies.
Case Discussion
Thalidomide used to be prescribed to treat pain, nausea, depression, etc., and was sold without information of its teratogenic side effects. It was also prescribed to pregnant women. In the following years children were born with severe malformations. This patient has a normal head/skull, thorax, spine, ankles and feet (not uploaded).