Bilateral congenital absence of patella

Congenital bilateral absence of diaphragm.

Diaphragmatic hernia occurs in one in 2000 births' and is responsible for 8 % of congenital malformations causing death during the first few days after birth.2 The most common hernia occurs through the foramen of Bochdalek and is five times more common on the left side than on the right.3 Complete absence of the diaphragm is very rare and, in a series of 117 cases of diaphragmatic hernia in inf...

Congenital Absence of Left Circumflex Coronary Artery

Congenital absence of left circumflex artery is a rare congenital anomaly of the coronary arteries. The prevalence of the anomaly in different studies ranges from 0.6% to 1.3%. Of these, 80% are benign and asymptomatic and 20% are clinically important. We report a 56-year-old man presented with acute resting chest pain who was diagnosed as having acute anterolateral infarction accompanied by el...

Congenital Bilateral Absence of the Radius and Thumb

Bilateral Congenital Absence of the Stapes Superstructure in Two Siblings

Middle ear ossicle malformations are an uncommon event. Among them, the congenital absence of the stapes is a very rare condition that is seldom described in the literature. We report the cases of two women, aged 19 and 22 , who presented with a long history of conductive deafness. An exploratory tympanotomy was performed and the absence of the stapes superstructure and an abnormal position of ...

Clinical Implications of Congenital Absence of Circumflex Coronary Artery

Introduction: Coronary artery anomalies are rare clinical entities reported in 0.6% to 5.6% of diagnostic coronary angiographies. Anomalous origins of coronary arteries from distal segments are rarely reported. Presented herein is a coronary anomaly in which the circumflex artery (CX) originated as a continuation of the posterolateral branch of the right coronary artery (RCA) w...