NORMAL FEMUR

Normal Femur

ABNORMAL FEMUR

1. Shortened Femur - Down Syndrome. Less commonly trisomy 13, 18, triploidy, Turner’s syndrome.

Short femur and humerus in Down syndrome Link to The Genetic Sonogram

2. Femoral Hypoplasia-Unusual Facies Syndrome.
3. Proximal Focal Femoral deficiency.
4. Femur-fibula-ulna and Femur-tibia-radius complex.
5. Other causes of slightly shortened femur:
• Measurement error (common).
• Early onset IUGR.
• Achondroplasia.
• Hypochondroplasia.
• Jeune syndrome.
• Kniest syndrome.
• Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenital.
• Shprintzen syndrome.
• Neu-Laxova syndrome.
• Turners syndrome.
• Tetrasomy 12p (Pallister-Killian syndrome).