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Parastremmatic dwarfism is a rare bone disease that features severe dwarfism thoracic kyphosis (a type of scoliosis that affects the upper back) a distortion and twisting of the limbs contractures of the large joints malformations of the vertebrae and pelvis and incontinence. The disease was first reported in 1970 by Leonard Langer and associates; they used the term parastremmatic from the Greek parastremma or distorted limbs to describe it.
