BACKGROUND Data on congenital anomalies from developing countries of the sub-Saharan region are scarce. However, it is important to have comprehensive and reliable data on the description and prevalence of congenital anomalies to allow surveillance and the implementation of appropriate public health strategies for prevention and management. In this study, we describe the profile of congenital a...

Background: There is a variation in the incidence and risk factors of congenital anomalies between countries. Congenital anomalies are structural defect that originates before birth, interfering with normal body function and leading to morbidity or even early death. Aim of the Study: To determine the most common fetal congenital anomalies among Egyptian women and to estimate some of the risk fa...

Understanding how the pancreas develops is essential to understand the pathogenesis of congenital pancreatic anomalies. Recent studies have shown the advantages of investigating the development of frogs, mice, and chickens for understanding early embryonic development of the pancreas and congenital anomalies, such as choledochal cysts, anomalous pancreaticobiliary junction, annular pancreas, an...

A bronchus arising directly from the trachea is an infrequent congenital anomaly which usually represents the displaced origin of a normal bronchus. Rarely, a true supernumerary tracheal bronchus occurs supplying an associated tracheal lobe. The case is described of a patient in whom a supernumerary tracheal bronchus and tracheal lobe was demonstrated by computed tomographic scanning and magnet...

aplasia cutis conginita (acc) is a condition characterized by congenital absence of skin, usually on the scalp. acc can occur as an isolated condition or in the presence of other congenital anomalies. here we describe a case of a 16 days old baby girl with an isolated acc of the scalp. her elder two siblings have been diagnosed with acc with concomitant cardiac or limb anomalies. the patient wa...

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 ...