OBJECTIVE To assess the outcome of external cephalic version for routine management of malpresenting foetuses at term. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Tertiary teaching hospital, Malaysia. PATIENTS From September 2003 to June 2004, a study involving 41 pregnant women with malpresentation at term was undertaken. An external cephalic version protocol was implemented. Data we...

The cephalic arch is a common location of stenosis, especially in brachiocephalic fistulas. The cephalic arch has a number of anatomic variations. Cephalic arch stenoses are often resistant and have poor primary patency. Here we describe an unusual case of a hemodialysis patient with a single-conduit supraclavicular cephalic arch draining into the external jugular vein presenting with recurrent...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of successful external cephalic version on the incidence of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) requiring treatment in singleton breech presentation at term. DESIGN Observational cohort study. SETTING Three large teaching hospitals in the Netherlands. POPULATION Women with a singleton breech presentation of 34 weeks of gestation or more, who underwent...

OBJECTIVE To assess the mode of delivery in women after a successful external cephalic version by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, Embase, ClinicalTrials.gov, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and the Cochrane Library for studies reporting on the mode of delivery in women after successful external cephalic version at t...

INTRODUCTION External cephalic version is a procedure of fetal rotation to a cephalic presentation through manoeuvres applied to the maternal abdomen. There are several prognostic factors described in literature for external cephalic version success and prediction scores have been proposed, but their true implication in clinical practice is controversial. We aim to identify possible factors tha...

This paper presents SEM micrographs of portions of the male, female, and infective-stage juvenile of Steinernema anomali. Included are micrographs of the cephalic and caudal region, spicules, and gubernaculum of the male, the cephalic and vulval region of the female, and the cephalic region of the infective-stage juvenile. Males have six labial and four prominent cephalic papillae and small amp...

The role of calcium in neurulation in rat embryos has been studied. Rat embryos at 10 X 4 days of gestation, when the cephalic neural folds have elevated but not fused, have been cultured in various media, and the effects of these media on the morphology of the cephalic neural folds have been observed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Embryos cultured in serum containing EDTA or...

Background: Totally implantable access ports (TIAP) could be done in two methods: puncture of subclavian vein and cephalic vein cutdown. Cephalic vein cutdown method has fewer complications but has higher failure rates. We present a method to decrease the failure rates. Methods: We use the continuously injection with diluted heparin solution via catheter while introducing the TIAP catheter into...

Spleen development was studied in 11 groups of chicken embryos: (1) intact, /; (2) 'hypophysectomized', H, by partial decapitation, and nine groups of' hypophysectomized' embryos in which each host received a specific type of pars distalis graft; (3) one cephalic region, HCe; (4) one middle region, HM; (5) one caudal region, HCa; (6) the entire pars distalis, HE; (7) two cephalic regions, H2Ce;...