[The cheiro-lumbar dysostosis (author's transl)].

A cheiro-lumbar dysostosis is described, an association of constitutional stenosis of the lumbar canal due to the shortness and hypertrophy of the posterior arch of the vertebrae and of a dysostosis of the hand also due to shortness and hypertrophy of metacarpals (brachymetacarpy) and of phalanges (brachyphalangy). This cheiro-lumbar dysostosis is frequent and described in 6 patients suffering from lumbar back pain and sciatic.