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Damascus, SANA- The British Oxford Journal documented and published a report about a rare scientific case that was diagnosed at the General Authority of the Damascus Hospital / Mujtahid / of a child with Thévenard’s disease, aka. ulcero-mutilating acropathology syndrome which is a rare hereditary disorder.
The report describes the case of a six-year-old girl with deep, non-healing ulcers on her lower extremities that progressed to spontaneous mutilation of her toes and distal phalanges.
In this case which started two years ago, seldom-reported features were encountered such as hands’ involvement, absence of family history and congenital absence of teeth eruption.
According to the case, the child’s psychomotor development is normal and her general condition is good, but she has gradually lost her limbs and after extensive investigations that included blood and coagulation tests, biopsies, a neurological study and a comprehensive structural scan, the condition was diagnosed in the hospital’s dermatological clinic as the Thévenard syndrome.
The case was diagnosed, followed up and documented by a specialized team of dermatologists at Damascus Hospital, which included Dr. Huda al-Aseel, Dr. Mohammad Haitham Haqqi and Dr. Tariq Turk.
Ruaa al-Jazaeri
