a fifteen-year-old torkaman girl with turner's mosaic kariotype is presented. she has had congenital esophageal stenosis with severe dysphagia since birth and iron deficincy anemia in addition to other classical features of the syndrome. according to author's knowledge this is the first report of a new congenital structural gastrointestinal anomaly with this disease.

OBJECTIVE To assess the public health consequences of the rise in multiple births with respect to congenital anomalies. DESIGN Descriptive epidemiological analysis of data from population-based congenital anomaly registries. SETTING Fourteen European countries. POPULATION A total of 5.4 million births 1984-2007, of which 3% were multiple births. METHODS Cases of congenital anomaly inclu...

Congenital anomalies that are diagnosed in at least 120,000 US infants every year are the leading cause of infant death and contribute to disability and pediatric hospitalizations. Several large-scale epidemiologic studies have provided substantial evidence of an association between congenital anomalies and cancer risk in children, suggesting potential underlying cancer-predisposing conditions ...

the majority of coronary artery fistulas (cafs) are congenital. the anomaly accounts for 0.4% of congenital heart defects and approximately 50% of pediatric coronary vasculature anomalies. twenty percent of people with congenital cafs have other concomitant cardiac anomalies, most frequently aortic and pulmonary atresia and patent ductus arteriosus. it is worthy of note that caf with the tetral...

Orthotopic multicystic dysplastic kidney with crossed fused ectopia is a rare congenital anomaly. This congenital anomaly may give an appearance of a solitary kidney morphology during the initial imaging evaluation. A solitary kidney should be carefully evaluated for the presence of duplication, horseshoe configuration, or crossed renal ectopy. Vesicoureteral reflux is a common finding associat...