A general idea of the magnitude of the problem can be drawn from studies of the occurrence of the common clefts of the lip and palate (Davis (1935) found four median clefts of the lip and five oblique facial clefts in a series of 937 examples of common clefts of the lip and palate. Blackfield and Wilde (1950) noted only five lateral (transverse) facial clefts during a period in which they obser...

Introduction: To study sentence comprehension in Persian-speaking Patients with Aphasia considering the factors of complexity. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the performance of 6 non-fluent aphasic patients were tested and their performance was compared to 15 matched control group. Comprehension of semantically reversible sentences was assessed using a binary sentence-picture matching...

SUMMARY Craniofacial clefts involve all soft tissue and skeletal elements throughout the cleft. Usefulness of tissue expansion in craniofacial clefts is reported. Surgery for a complex type of facial clefts is more difficult and more extensive than for a simple one. We experienced a primary case of complex facial clefts (Tessier No. 2 and 12 on the right and 3, 11, and 5 on the left). Soft-tiss...

1 Introduction Clefts in Korean and Japanese show a remarkable set of similarities. Both languages allow casemarked (CM, adopting the label of Hoji 1987) and non-casemarked (non-CM) clefts (1); both allow multiple clefts (2); many speakers disallow clefting of casemarked subjects and/or objects in single focus clefts (4); but both allow clefting of casemarked subjects and objects in multiple cl...

Background Oral cleft is the most common orofacial congenital anomaly among live births. This anomaly at birth is one of the main causes of children disability and mortality.  Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common anomalies in oral clefts.  This study aimed to assess the incidence of congenital heart diseases anomalies in newborns with oral clefts. Materials and Methods This ...

PURPOSE To correlate clinical outcome with the size and location of clefts in patients with schizencephaly. PATIENTS AND METHODS MR scans and clinical records of 20 patients with schizencephaly were retrospectively reviewed. Seven patients had bilateral clefts (10 open lip clefts, 4 closed lip clefts), eight patients had right-sided unilateral clefts (5 open lip clefts, 3 closed lip clefts), ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Intravertebral clefts have long been considered as pathognomonic for avascular necrosis and as a rare cause of compression fracture. We have observed unsuspected clefts opacifying frequently during vertebroplasty. Our purpose in this study was to determine the incidence of these clefts in symptomatic osteoporotic compression fractures, assess the sensitivity of MR imaging...

AIMS Deep clefts are a cause of early failure of mitral valve repair, but it is not known whether clefts represent normal morphology, or whether they occur more frequently in mitral valve prolapse (MVP). METHODS AND RESULTS Deep clefts were defined as indentations extending ≥ 50% of the depth of the mitral valve leaflet. Using trans-oesophageal echo (TOE), 3D zoom images were acquired of the ...