introduction: orofacial clefts are among the most common congenital anomalies. patients presenting with orofacial clefts often require surgery or other complex procedures. a cleft lip or palate can be a single anomaly or a part of multiple congenital anomalies. the reported prevalence of cleft disease and associated anomalies varies widely across the literature, and is dependent on the diagnost...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 15 March 2010 192 6 300-301 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Editorials system, including the considerable expense of provid to screen for, diagnose and terminate pregnancie major congenital anomalies (Down syndrome and defects in particul r). Importantly, some anomalies able, including neural tube defects (70% preventa quate ...

Anomaly of the ossicles is frequently seen in a patient with congenital anomalies of the head or face, such as congenital obstruction of the external ear canal, Treacher Collins syndrome or cephalopathy. Congenital anomaly of the ossicles however is not a rare occurrence even in a patient without anomalies of the head or face. Here, we would present our own experience with six cases of congenit...

Introduction: Orofacial clefts are among the most common congenital anomalies. Patients presenting with orofacial clefts often require surgery or other complex procedures. A cleft lip or palate can be a single anomaly or a part of multiple congenital anomalies. The reported prevalence of cleft disease and associated anomalies varies widely across the literature, and is dependent on the diagnost...

Polydactyly is perhaps one of the most common congenital hand and foot anomalies. Tetrapolydactyly (polydactyly 24) is a very rare form of hand and foot anomalies. Postaxial ray polydactyly usually occurs in male blacks without associated congenital abnormalities. We report a case of postaxial ray tetrapolydactyly in a female neonate which occurred sporadically and without associated congenital...

A review of seventy-one children with sacral anomalies is presented. The aetiology is discussed and a classification of sacral anomalies is suggested, with three groups of patients: agenetic, dysgenetic and dysraphic. The clinical presentation of each group is discussed and the high incidence of congenital visceral and skeletal abnormalities is indicated in the dysgenetic group. The need for co...

BACKGROUND Congenital anomalies are more common in twins than singletons but in the majority, aetiology is not known. Our aim was to test the hypothesis that survivors of an early loss in a multiple conception, compared with all singletons, are at increased risk of congenital anomaly. METHODS Data were abstracted from the UK population-based Northern Multiple Pregnancy Register and Northern C...

PURPOSE to determine factors associated to amniotic fluid volume and frequencies of fetal anomalies, in a reference center in Pernambuco. METHODS a transversal study performed in high-risk pregnant women submitted to obstetrical morphological ultrasound, from March 2002 to March 2006, at an institution from Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil. The intrauterine diagnosis was confirmed after birth. Soci...

Research has been conducted on the relationship between postnatal mortality from dominant causes and age, using data from the US, Japan and former Czechoslovakia, during the period 1979–1991. The logarithm of a total mortality, total mortality excluding deaths caused by accidents, logarithm of mortality caused by congenital anomalies, logarithm of mortality caused by other respiratory diseases ...