Potter phenotype (oligohydramnios sequence)

 

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This baby demonstrates the typical "Potter's facies" with prominent infraorbital folds resulting from oligohydramnios in utero. This is an example of a deformation sequence in which an anomaly (here the lack of normal kidneys) leads to lack of fetal urine output with resultant oligohydramnios that causes deformation through constraint.

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