OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy and effectiveness of the screening of all newborn infants for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) using ultrasound imaging, as is standard practice in some European countries but not in the United Kingdom, the United States, or Scandinavia. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES Twenty three medical, economic, and grey literature databases (to March 200...

BACKGROUND Showing a prevalence rate of 0.5-0.8%, urogenital malformations discovered in newborns is regarded relatively common. The aim of this study is to examine the efficacy of ultrasound diagnostics in detecting developmental disorders in the urogenital system. METHODS We have processed the prenatal sonographic and postnatal clinical details of 175 urogenital abnormalities in 140 newborn...

Background: Throughout life period of female, breast is subjected to constant physical and physiological alterations that are related puberty, menstrual cycle, pregnancy, lactation, menopause. Benign diseases (BBD) constitute a heterogeneous group lesions which include developmental abnormalities, inflammatory granulomatous lesions, epithelial stromal proliferations, neoplasms.Methods: This pro...

Objective: Ultrasonography, as a diagnostic tool, constitutes non-invasive, cost-effective, readily-availableand repeatable imaging technique. Ultrasonography has been used means of diagnosing various medicalconditions for many years. However, in the field maxillofacial surgery it represents relatively new aidin diagnosis diseases affecting oral and regions. These include: infection,soft-tissue...

Objective. To create a recommendation for pediatricians and other primary care providers about their role as screeners for detecting developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in children. Patients. Theoretical cohorts of newborns. Method. Model-based approach using decision analysis as the foundation. Components of the approach include the following: Perspective: Primary care provider. Outcomes:...

OBJECTIVE Posterior fossa hemorrhages may be underdiagnosed in surviving neonates, with cerebellar hemorrhage discovered in 10% to 25% of autopsy specimens from very low birth weight infants. Posterior fossa lesions have been difficult to visualize by the traditional ultrasonography approach through the anterior fontanelle. Late in 1994, routine posterior fossa imaging through the posterolatera...

The current explosive growth in developmental biology, fuelled by the almost completed sequencing of the human genome, is bound to have a profound impact upon the practice of medicine and dentistry in the twenty-first century. No other discipline more accurately reflects this impact than embryology, which combines the basic and clinical sciences of genetics, ontogeny, phylogeny, teratology, and...