Ectrodactyly, ectodermal dysplasia, and cleft lip/palate syndrome (EEC) syndrome is a rare genetic disorder with an incidence of around 1 in 90,000 in population. It is known with various names including split hand-split foot-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft syndrome or split hand, cleft hand, or lobster claw hand/foot. We report first case of EEC with associated heart disease (Tetralogy of Fallot) w...

Isolated limb reduction defects occur in approximately 1 in 2000 live births within which central ray anomalies are an important subgroup. Most affected persons have mild or moderate functional impairment. Considerable psychological morbidity may also occur. While there have been major strides forwards in our understanding of vertebrate limb development, the mechanisms responsible for central r...

INTRODUCTION Cleft lip and palate, the most common developmental deformity, is seen worldwide and the etiology involves a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the maternal risk factors associated with the development of cleft lip and cleft palate. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a case control study at the Women's Hospital in Culiacan...

BACKGROUND Median cleft lip is a rare anomaly consisting of a midline vertical cleft through the upper lip. It can also involve the premaxillary bone, the nasal septum, and the central nervous system. In our current report, we present the clinical features of 6 patients with a median cleft lip and their surgical management according to the accompanying anomalies. METHODS From December 2010 to...

Background: Cleft lip and palate has a worldwide incidence of about 1.4 per 1000 live births. Surgery is usually carried out early and there is considerable interest in the assessment of residual deformity and surgical outcome. Commonly used assessment techniques rely on interlandmark distances and angles and result in rather difficult to interpret tabulations of data (Farkas, 1994). The introd...

Any attentive observer of families who have a child afflicted with a cleft lip whether or not associated with a palatal cleft would be certain to be impressed by the importance of the psychological context of their interpersonal exchanges and the risks of a breakdown in the parent-child relationship adversely affecting the child’s development. The birth of a child with a cleft lip inevitably be...

Management of a neonate with cleft lip and palate and assuring the parents regarding the future well being of the child can be a challenging task. Timely referral by pediatrician and treatment by an Orthodontist and a Plastic Surgeon can help in limiting the deformity to its minimum and aid in normal growth and development of the child. This paper describes the treatment of two neonates with un...

Hay-Wells syndrome or AEC (Ankyloblepharon, Ectodermal dysplasia and Cleft lip and palate syndrome) is a rare ectodermal disorder. The treatment is aimed to prevent clinical complications. We describe the case of a four-month old male patient with erosions on the scalp, trunk and arms, trachyonychia, deformity of the ears, micropenis, cleft palate, decreased eyebrow and eyelash hairs, in additi...