Epiphyseal Development in Fetal Malnutrition Syndrome

Abstract

FETAL malnutrition syndrome is a term used to describe the infant who is small for gestation and often wasted at birth. A wide variety of names have been used by others to describe this condition, including postmaturity, placental insufficiency, intrauterine growth retardation or simply the small term infant. External measurements of such newborn infants¹ have shown them not long and scrawny, as usually described, but stunted in linear skeletal growth, indicating that fetal malnutrition affects growth of bone as well as soft tissue and suggesting that epiphyseal development might also be delayed.If epiphyseal development is delayed by malnutrition in . . .