She had an acetabulum, capsule, and ligamentum teres, but no tibia or fibula; she also had a defective right forearm.

She was never the victim of rachitis or like disease, but died of syphilis in the Colonial Hospital.

In her twenty-second year she was delivered of a full-grown child free of deformity.
There was a woman living in Bavaria, under the observation of Buhl, who had congenital absence of both femurs and both fibulas.

Almost all the muscles of the thigh existed, and the main attachment to the pelvis was by a large capsular articulation.

Charpentier gives the portrait of a woman in whom there was a uniform diminution in the size of the limbs.
Debout portrays a young man with almost complete absence of the thigh and leg, from whose right hip there depended a foot.