There were 97 perinatal death*. ..uriim congenital malformations in the Greater Harare Obstetric Unit during 1983. This gives an incidence of 2.14/1 000 total births. The central nervous system was the most frequently involved system, affected in 40 (41.2%) of the deaths. The commonest malfor­ mation was anencephaly present in 17 (42.5%) of the central nervous system defects. Mothers of babies ...

A year-long prospective study conducted in the obstetrical service of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi for the year 2002, observed 9892 deliveries (312 still-born). Amongst these, there were 34 births with various NTDs of whom there were 16 live births. Anencephaly was the commonest of the neural abnormalities (19 cases with only 3 live births) followed by 11 myelomeningocoele...

Pancreatic infiltration with eosinophils is an uncommon finding with numerous etiologies. While two rare cases of eosinophilic pancreatitis in infants born to Type I diabetic mothers have been reported once in the English literature and once in the French literature, we present the additional finding of anencephaly in a 34 week old fetus. Although the pancreas was grossly unremarkable, histolog...