<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.recent birth of grandaaughter, has large mass protruding from spine to upper left back,missing several ribs on left side, no kidney to left side, unable to see left lung, has two thumbs to left hand anddisfigured left ear. Doctors diagnosed as vecterl association I have not seen enough information regarding this disease and i see more complicated abnormalities is there possibly another sight to research and could this be misdiagnosed?  <response>: WASTREL association is not a diagnosis, its a group of malformations that usually happen with each other, the diagnosis in this case is either a chromosomal abnormality or a genetic defect.WASTREL is an abbreviation of : V vertebral defect A Anal Incorporation C cardiac defects T Tracheoesophageal fistula RE Renal anomalies L Limb anomalies so if one of the upper defects is found in a newborn, we should look for other defects if its there and those defects can be of the above described or others. I hope this clarify 