background and aims. the aim of the present study is to determine the incidence of mthfr c677 t and a1298c mutations in iranian patients with cleft lip and/or cleft palate. materials and methods. we screened 61 iranian patients with cleft lip and/or cleft palate for mutations in the two alleles of mthfr gene associated with cleft lip and/or palate: a1298c and c677t, using polymerase chain react...

OBJECTIVE To determine if the presence of a tracheo-esophageal fistula (TEF) alters outcome following laryngeal cleft repair. DESIGN A retrospective review of patients diagnosed and treated for laryngeal clefts, with a minimum follow-up period of 1 year. SETTING An academic tertiary care children's hospital. PATIENTS Twenty-five pediatric patients diagnosed and surgically treated for lary...

Congenital cleft earlobe is a rare auricular malformation. Various techniques have been reported for the correction of this deformity. Few papers deal with surgical techniques to correct the triple lobe sub-type cleft. This anomaly presents more technical difficulties in the three-dimensional rearrangement than other sub-types. We describe the technique used to correct a triple lobe deformity i...

Five-day-old male neonate born to non-consanguineous parents by normal vaginal delivery was presented with deformity of lip, face and eyelid on the right side, and cyanosis. The cyanosis had improved soon after endotracheal intubation. Examination revealed deformity of upper lip, upper jaw and lower eyelid of right eye; this type of craniofacial cleft is called as Tessier type 3 (Fig. 1). There...

Electron microscopy has revealed an abundance of material in the clefts of synapses in the mammalian brain, and the biochemical and functional characteristics of proteins occupying synaptic clefts are well documented. However, the detailed spatial organization of the proteins in the synaptic clefts remains unclear. Electron microscope tomography provides a way to delineate and map the proteins ...

objectives: one of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon in children. an early limited lexicon can also lead to limited performances in other language areas. this study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 month-old children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas. materials: the macarthur-bate...

Basal encephalocele is a rare craniofacial anomaly. In the present paper we report a 10-year-old boy presented with cleft palate, congenital nystagmus, and hypertelorism. During preoperative evaluation for cleft palate repair, a pulsatile mass was detected in the pharynx. Magnetic resonance imaging showed sphenoethmoidal type of basal encephalocele and agenesis of corpus callosum. Neurosurgical...

The notions of Galois and cleft extensions are generalized for coquasi-Hopf algebras. It is shown that such an extension over a coquasi-Hopf algebra is cleft if and only if it is Galois and has the normal basis property. A Schneider type theorem ([33]) is proven for coquasi-Hopf algebras with bijective antipode. As an application, we generalize Schauenburg’s bialgebroid construction for coquasi...