ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric performance patient- and parent-reported measures in International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) Standard Set Cleft Care, identify ways improving concept coverage.MethodsData from 714 patients with cleft lip and/or palate, aged 8 9, 10 12.5, 22 years were collected between November 2015 April 2019 at Erasmus U...

craniofacial  anomalies  include  clefts,  synostoses,  atrophic  abnormalities,neoplasias etc. among which cleft lip and/or palate caused by abnormal facial development during gestation is one of the most prevalent congenital defects. its overall occurrence is about 1:700 ranging from 0.02 to 4.04 in 1000 live births. there are different etiologic factors considering the cleft cause. in most c...

background: two main muscles studied in the hand for evaluation of median nerve injuries are opponens pollicis (op) and abductor pollicis brevis (apb). however, riché-cannieu communicating branch (rccb) may limit the use of these muscles in electrodiagnosis. this condition is confusing in the case of median nerve injuries. this study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of rccb.   methods: ...

(2001) Genetic heterogeneity and exclusion of a modifying locus at 17p11.2-p11.1 in Finnish families with van der Woude syndrome. (2001) Mapping of the second locus for the Van der Woude syndrome to chromosome 1p34. (2003) Collagen XI sequence variations in nonsyndromic cleft palate, Robin sequence and micrognathia. (2003) Linkage and linkage disequilibrium searched between non-syndromic cleft ...

background oral cleft is the most common orofacial congenital anomaly among live births. this anomaly at birth is one of the main causes of children disability and mortality.  congenital heart disease (chd) is one of the most common anomalies in oral clefts.  this study aimed to assess the incidence of congenital heart diseases anomalies in newborns with oral clefts. materials and methods this ...

purpose: to report a case of hypotonous maculopathy after blunt trauma and its treatment. patient and findings: a 34-year-old woman presented with decreased visual acuity in her left eye following blunt trauma. right eye examination was unremarkable, but visual acuity of left eye was counting fingers. slit lamp biomicroscopy of the left eye was within normal limits, but on funduscopy, papilloma...

introduction: tessier facial cleft is among the rarest facial clefts reported in literatures and there are many issues arguing about its multidisciplinary repairing techniques. tessier number 4 and 5 are extremely rare facial anomalies. there are few literatures describing these clefts and their surgical modalities. number 5 tessier cleft begins medial to oral commissure in the upper lip and ex...