[Abnormalities of the skeletal system in autopsied children]

As a result of the autopsy reports of the Pathological Institute of Mühlhausen in the twenty-year period from 1960 to 1979 there were 4.8% (n = 180) malformations of the skeletal system among 4,561 autopsies of still-born and live-born children up to their 16th year of age. Club-foot was the most frequent malformation followed, with decreasing frequency, by inborn anomalies of the spinal column, syndactylia and polvdactylia as well as dysmelia. The malformations were classified and discussed according to nature, combinations and sex differences as well as with respect to territorial and time distribution.