Congenital vascular malformation represents a group of anomalous vascular structures caused by defective development through various stages of embryogenesis. In 1988 a workshop for this unique field of vascular pathology was held in Hamburg, Germany, and new classification was evolved on the basis of consensus through this workshop. Congenital vascular malformations are now classified based on ...

This study recorded the rate of congenital malformations in 10000 births at a referral hospital in Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran in 1998-99. The overall incidence of congenital malformations was 1.01% (1.19% in males and 0.76% in females). Anomalies of the musculoskeletal system had the highest incidence (0.38%), followed by central nervous system (0.28%) and genitourinary system (0.25%). Th...

     Urethralduplication is a rare condition occurs as a congenital malformation either independently or in the setting of other congenital malformations such as caudal duplication syndrome. Its prevalence becomes even rarer if it manifests as two side-by-side tracts in coronal plan.Nonetheless, we introduce a unique presentation of complete coronal urethral duplication accompanied by astoundin...

A congenital malformation is an anatomical or structural abnormality present at birth. Congenital malformations may be caused by genetic factors or environmental insults or a combination of the two that occur during prenatal development. Most common congenital malformations demonstrate multifactorial inheritance with a threshold effect and are determined by a combination of genetic and environm...

OBJECTIVE We examined whether maternal smoking and use of nicotine substitutes during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy increased the prevalence of congenital malformations in general and of certain congenital malformations in particular. METHODS In the Danish National Birth Cohort (1997-2003) we identified 76,768 pregnancies (and their subsequent singleton births); 20,603 were exposed to tobac...

Some are born monsters, some achieve monstrosity; others have monsters thrust upon them! I put myself in the last category. When I first went to work at Southmead Hospital some twelve years ago I was no more or less interested in monsters and congenital malformations than in a great many other things. I soon found however, that this problem was indeed thrust upon me. Monsters and malformations ...

In this country today if a child survives the first 4 weeks after birth he has a very good chance of 70 years of life, but to attain this he still has to negotiate the hazardous perinatal period. The perinatal mortality survey for England, Scotland and Wales showed that the highest single cause of first week deaths is congenital malformation, constituting nearly 25 per cent of deaths in March 1...

SUMMARY The aim of this work was to describe the clinical aspects of eye malformations observed at the ophthalmology unit of the Yaoundé Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS We carried out a retrospective study of all malformations of the eye and its adnexae observed among children aged 0-5 years who were seen at the ophthalmology unit from January 2003 to Dec...

The complacency with which congenital anomalies were once interpreted as expressions of faulty inheritance was rudely shaken in 1940. A convincing demonstration had just occurred in Australia that German measles contracted early in pregnancy by the mother may initiate congenital cataract , deafness, or congenital heart disease in the fetus. A great area for medical exploration had opened. To ap...

Background Orofacial clefts are among the most common congenital craniofacial malformations and may be associated with other birth defects. However, the proportion and type of additional anomalies vary greatly between studies. This study assessed the prevalence and type of associated congenital malformations in children with orofacial clefts, who attended the largest cleft lip and palate tertia...