Clinical features
The clinical features of arthrogryposis include:
- normal intelligence
- normal sensation
- joint stiffness
- shapeless, cylindrical limbs due to muscle atrophy
- absent flexion skin creases
- skin atrophic and 'waxy'
- upper limbs:
- shoulders internally rotated and adducted
- elbow extension
- forearm pronation
- wrist flexion
- finger flexion
- thumbs clasped in palm
- lower limbs:
- hip dislocation
- subluxation of knees
- club feet
- stiffness of several, often disparate joints
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