The Limb-Body Wall Complex describes a number of congenital malformations affecting many parts of the body. Affected fetuses abort or are stillborn. The risk of recurrence in a future pregnancy is very small.
Major features:
(1) thoraco-abdominoschisis (body wall defect) with an extra-embryonic coelem containing thoracic and/or abdominal organs
(2) facial clefts
(3) limb defects some of which may be related to amniotic bands
(4) anterior exencephaly or encephalocele
Other findings may include:
(1) cardiac anomalies
(2) lung anomalies
(3) diaphragmatic defects
(4) intestinal anomalies
(5) renal anomalies
(6) genitourinary defects
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