Congenital Biliary Hypoplasia

Familial congenital adrenal hypoplasia.

Adrenal hypoplasia is an invariable finding in infants with anencephaly. Hypoplastic adrenal glands have been described in infancy associated with congenital hypoplasia of the pituitary gland (Mosier, 1956). S;kl (1948) was probably the first author to describe congenital adrenal hypoplasia unassociated with other congenital abnormalities, though he mentions some similar cases described by earl...

Congenital Medial Meniscus Hypoplasia.

An 18-year-old man with no prior surgical history presented with left knee pain after sustaining a basketball injury and was diagnosed with transient patellar dislocation. Magnetic resonance imaging was ordered to further assess the extent of injury.

Familial congenital adrenal hypoplasia.

Congenital adrenal hypoplasia was first described by Sikl (1948). Other reports appeared, and Mitchell and Rhaney (1959) recorded the first occurrence in a male sibship and suggested a familial basis. Boyd and MacDonald (1960) reported the necropsy findings in another pair of brothers who died in the neonatal period. The following report presents two further pairs of brothers born in Scotland w...

Congenital Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia

Case 1. The elder of two sibs, this boy was born on May 21, 1965 to unrelated healthy parents aged 29 (mother) and 30 years (father). Birthweight was 2820 g.; delivery was by forceps. His mother had 'influenza' between the fifth and sixth months of the pregnancy which had been otherwise normal. There was no previous foetal loss. Four generations of the family, comprising, in addition to the par...

Congenital adrenal hypoplasia--an X-linked disease.