VACTERL association
SYNDROME THAT IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE PRESENCE OF AT LEAST THREE OF THE FOLLOWING: VERTEBRAL DEFECTS, ANAL ATRESIA, CARDIAC DEFECTS, TRACHEO-ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA, RENAL ANOMALIES, AND LIMB ABNORMALITIES
VATER association; Vater association; Vacterl association; VATER; VACTERL; VACTER syndrome; VATER syndrome; Briard-Evans syndrome; David-O'Callaghan syndrome; Hunter-MacMurray syndrome; VETER syndrome; VATER/VACTERL syndrome; VACTERL syndrome; VATER Syndrome
The VACTERL association (also VATER association, and less accurately VACTERL syndrome) refers to a recognized group of birth defects which tend to co-occur (see below). This pattern is a recognized association, as opposed to a syndrome, because there is no known pathogenetic cause to explain the grouped incidence.