PURPOSE
The aim of the study was to analyze the frequency and certain epidemiological characteristics of a consecutive series of conjoined twins born in Spain.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
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We describe 10 cases born to nondiabetic mothers who presented with severe spondylocostal dysostosis (SCD) associated with other anomalies, identified among 20,526 malformed liveborn infants from the… (More)
We studied 2 sibs, born to consanguineous parents, who presented with an MCA pattern which includes low birthweight, tracheoesophageal fistula, duodenal atresia, extrahepatic biliary atresia,… (More)
Eighteen cases of amelia in the Spanish Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECEMC) were analyzed epidemiologically. Prevalence at birth was 0.15 per 10,000 newborn infants, which is not… (More)
The brain structure of 14 infants born with congenital myotonic dystrophy at 2 hospitals was evaluated by cranial ultrasonography, and the findings were correlated with clinical and neuropathologic… (More)
Lubinsky [Am J Med Genet 3:23-28, 1987] has suggested that the properties of the midline involve early determinative informational processes and are related to the midline's position and definition… (More)
We report on two new cases with a pure partial trisomy of the long arm of chromosome 7. Patient 1 was a female who showed cleft palate with retrognathia, cardiomyopathy, and pulmonary hypertension.… (More)
We report on an 8-year-old boy with a pattern of multiple congenital anomalies that strongly suggest DK-phocomelia syndrome. Birth findings included bilateral upper limb amelia, occipital… (More)
This paper reports a very unusual variety of female ano-rectal agenesis without fistula associated with severe urogenital malformations. The patient died of renal failure and, at autopsy, both… (More)
OBJECTIVE
The purposes of this study were to analyze the causes of limb reduction deficiencies based on a clinical-epidemiological approach and to study the causes by clinical presentation.
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