metaphyseal

Metaphyseal Chondrodysplasia

Type

 

Short limbed dwarfism, normal trunk and spine

 

Characteristics

 

Metaphyseal changes of tubular bones

- Normal epiphyses

- metaphysis adjacent to physis very broad and mildly scalloped

- resembles healing rickets

 

Pathology

 

Defect in proliferative and hypertrophic zones of physis

 

Types:

 

Jansens (Rare)

- most severe