developing supernumerary limbs is a rare congenital condition that only a few cases have been documented. depending on the cause and developmental conditions, they may be single, multiple or complicated, and occur as a syndrome or associated with other anomalies. polymelia is defined as the presence of extra limb(s) which have been reported in human, mouse, chicken, calf and lamb. it seems that...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Individuals with oral clefts exhibit considerably more dental anomalies than individuals without clefts. These problems could initially be among the symptoms of their disease and/or they may be the side effect of their treatments. Pushback palatoplasty could cause some interference during the development of teeth and result in tooth defects. PURPOSE The study was perf...

The District Health Information System (DHIS) software from the Health Information System Programme (HISP) based in South Africa is widely implemented in many developing countries as a health data analysis tool. Through the HISP Tanzania project, the DHIS was piloted in five districts in Tanzania. The objective of this study was to qualify and quantify the extent to which district health worker...

We report three cases of velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) with anal anomalies who have deletions of the 22q11 region and a further case where the proband has VCFS clinically and her father has an anal anomaly. It is important to consider VCFS in the differential diagnosis of children with anal anomalies and to look for other features of the syndrome, such as asymmetrical crying facies, submucou...

The paper studies interrelation between immune system condition and circulating concentrations of neuropeptides and neuronspecific enolase (NSE) upon perinatal pathology in newborns and infants. Reactivity of cytokine and interleukin links of immune systems was found varying in newborns and infants with CNS hypoxic-ischemic pathology, accompanied by psychomotor retardation, a psycho-speech diso...

Four patients aged between 9 months and 17 years were detected to have congenital ocular motor apraxia (COMA) over a 10-month period. Three of them were siblings. All exhibited the classical signs of a horizontal saccadic palsy. However, the signs were less pronounced with increasing age of the patient. This supports the observations of other authors who have noted an age-related resolution. Th...

(i) (ii) In its Communication of 30 November 2006 on reinforcing the management of the EU's southern maritime borders, the Commission proposed to establish a permanent Coast Patrol Network for the southern maritime external borders and to create a European Border Surveillance System (EUROSUR). The European Council in December 2006 considered it a priority to examine the creation of a European S...

Abstract Background Central nervous system (CNS) anomalies are the most commonly diagnosed abnormalities of all fetal malformations and usually primarily discovered on routine prenatal ultrasonography (US). Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive technology with high soft tissue contrast that documented to increase diagnostic accuracy for detection brain anomalies. The aim our ...