Patients that receive a loss of limbs due to phocomelia are typically treated with prosthetics. Skeletally there may be abnormally bent fingers, sloping shoulders, and phocomelia. She was born without arms and with shortened legs, a condition called phocomelia. He also specialized in congenital deformities, particularly gigantism and on phocomelia due to thalidomide. She reached the same conclusion as Lenz&colon; that thalidomide taken during pregnancy was causing phocomelia. Born with severe birth defects caused by thalidomide, Quasthoff is , and has phocomelia. Vega was born with phocomelia in his right leg, which was amputated as an infant. Phocomelia is a condition that involves malformations of the arms and legs. Phocomelia is an extremely rare congenital disorder involving malformation of the limbs (dysmelia).