Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Narrow chest
Low chest circumference
HP:0000774
What it means
Reduced width of the chest from side to side, associated with a reduced distance from the sternal notch to the tip of the shoulder.
Rare diseases that can present with this81
Very common80–99%
39- 3q13microdeletion syndrome
- 49,XXXYY syndrome
- Achondrogenesis
- Achondrogenesis type 1A
- Achondrogenesis type 1B
- Antley-Bixler syndrome
- Autosomal dominant myopia-midfacial retrusion-sensorineural hearing loss-rhizomelic dysplasia syndrome
- Autosomal recessive malignant osteopetrosis
- Axial spondylometaphyseal dysplasia
- Blomstrand lethal chondrodysplasia
- Boomerang dysplasia
- Campomelic dysplasia
- Cerebrofaciothoracic dysplasia
- Chondrodysplasia-difference of sex development syndrome
- Cleidocranial dysplasia
- Cloverleaf skull-multiple congenital anomalies syndrome
- Cranioectodermal dysplasia
- Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome
- Fibrochondrogenesis
- Heart defects-limb shortening syndrome
- Hypophosphatasia
- Jeune syndrome
- Kyphomelic dysplasia
- Melnick-Needles syndrome
- Metatropic dysplasia
- Müllerian derivatives-lymphangiectasia-polydactyly syndrome
- Neonatal severe primary hyperparathyroidism
- Non-distal duplication 13q syndrome
- Odontochondrodysplasia
- Otopalatodigital syndrome type 2
- Platyspondylic dysplasia, Torrance type
- Schneckenbecken dysplasia
- Short rib-polydactyly syndrome, Verma-Naumoff type
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia-craniosynostosis-cleft palate-cataracts-intellectual disability syndrome
- Thanatophoric dysplasia
- Thanatophoric dysplasia type 1
- Thanatophoric dysplasia type 2
- Thoracic dysplasia-hydrocephalus syndrome
- Thoracomelic dysplasia
Common30–79%
24- Achondrogenesis type 2
- Atelosteogenesis type I
- Atelosteogenesis type II
- Camptodactyly syndrome, Guadalajara type 1
- Cantú syndrome
- Cartilage-hair hypoplasia
- Craniolenticulosutural dysplasia
- Dyssegmental dysplasia, Silverman-Handmaker type
- Grant syndrome
- Greenberg dysplasia
- Hennekam syndrome
- Intellectual disability-cataracts-calcified pinnae-myopathy syndrome
- Lethal Kniest-like dysplasia
- Menkes disease
- Mosaic trisomy 14 syndrome
- Mosaic trisomy 8 syndrome
- Mucolipidosis type II
- Ossification anomalies-psychomotor developmental delay syndrome
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Ruvalcaba syndrome
- Short stature, Brussels type
- Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia, Sedaghatian type
- Triploidy syndrome
- Trisomy 13 syndrome
Sometimes5–29%
16- 8q24.3microdeletion syndrome
- Acrocapitofemoral dysplasia
- Childhood-onset nemaline myopathy
- CLAPO syndrome
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase deficiency
- Congenital muscular dystrophy due to LMNA mutation
- Familial visceral myopathy
- Fryns syndrome
and 8 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Narrow shoulders · Narrow thorax · Reduced anterior-posterior chest diameter
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