(n.) Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(2) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
(3) These cases show that an examination of the whole neuraxis is as important in patients with midline posterior fossa cysts as it is in patients with developmental syringomyelia or Chiari I malformation.
(4) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(5) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(6) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
(7) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(8) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
(9) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(10) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
(11) Nevertheless, the patterns of chromosomal abnormalities, and consequently that of associated malformations, were related to the different types of renal defects.
(12) Thirty-six lesions imaged as vascular malformations with abnormal vessels or diffusely increased activity.
(13) They constituted 7.3% of all patients with such malformations diagnosed during that period.
(14) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
(15) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
(16) structural malformations, all congenital defects, and all disorders or abnormalities with possible prenatal etiology.
(17) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
(18) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
(19) The hand seemed almost normal in 3 cases but these cases seem to represent the variability of the malformation.
(20) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
Plagiocephaly
Definition:
(n.) Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
Example Sentences:
(1) Authors report a ring chromosome 18 (18 r) in a four year old boy, with low birth weight, retarded growth and development, microcephaly and plagiocephaly, horizontal nystagmus, ambiguous genitalia, clinodactyly of the fifth finger, distal axial triradius, whorls pattern in 8 fingers in dermatoglyphic.
(2) Both the safety and efficacy of the treatment of isolated craniofacial dysostosis (plagiocephaly) in infancy have been demonstrated.
(3) Torticollis was an associated finding in 64 percent of infants with deformational frontal plagiocephaly; almost all were ipsilateral.
(4) Congenital muscular torticollis usually requires surgical release of the sternocleidomastoid muscle to achieve a good cosmetic result and to prevent plagiocephaly, facial asymmetry, and scoliosis.
(5) Female preponderance was noted in both synostotic (79 percent) and deformational (76 percent) frontal plagiocephaly.
(6) Premature pelvic descent, in the left occipital anterior position, may account for the high incidence of left-sided deformational plagiocephaly and ipsilateral torticollis.
(7) Plagiocephaly is commonly attributed to the synostosis of a single coronal suture.
(8) An unusual association of Klippel-Feil syndrome and other abnormalities (Sprengel's deformity, 1st cervical and 1st dorsal spina bifida, homovertebral bone, scoliosis, plagiocephaly, basilar impression, pterygium colli, nanism, hypogenitalism, etc.)
(9) Cranial anomalies that are discussed include plagiocephaly, bregmatic fontanelle bones, Wormian bones, cranial trauma, and heterotopic bones.
(10) Based on these findings, it would seem pertinent to consider early surgical release of the sutures of the calvaria and cranial base in plagiocephaly to prevent asymmetric facial development.
(11) Strabismus, ptosis, lateral canthal dystopia, nasolacrimal obstruction, and cranial nerve palsy were noted preoperatively in 32%, 21%, 14%, 12%, and 9% of 34 patients, respectively, undergoing ophthalmologic evaluation prior to unilateral orbital advancement for plagiocephaly.
(12) The deformations (n = 7) included plagiocephaly (n = 5), hemifacial hypoplasia (n = 1), and micrognathia (n = 1).
(13) Plagiocephaly is a term commonly used to describe congenital forehead asymmetry.
(14) In 1960 Adolph Schultz described several cases of plagiocephaly in a collection of mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) from the forests of Central America.
(15) In type II anterior plagiocephaly, the frontal and orbital anomalies are accompanied by contralateral deviation of the nasal pyramid and homolateral anterior displacement of the petrous bone.
(16) The plagiocephaly index, an index that reflects an underlying anatomic asymmetry of the brain, was assessed in ten schizophrenic patients and its values were correlated with the lateral distribution of quantitatively evaluated EEG.
(17) The patient, a six-year-old boy, had, in addition, multiple associated congenital anomalies that included Sprengel deformity, omovertebral bone, scoliosis, hypoplasia of the right thumb, plagiocephaly, choanal atresia, and Diamond-Blackfan anemia.
(18) Categorization of frontal plagiocephaly as synostotic or deformational was reliably made by physical examination, focusing on the supraorbital rims, nasal root, ears, and malar eminences.
(19) Finally, the authors certify the frequency and the seriousness of ocular repercussion, even in so called benign types of cranio-stenoses, such as plagiocephaly, trigonocephaly, and scaphocephaly.
(20) Three plagiocephalies, two trigonocephalies have thus been treated, as well as 5 facio-craniostenosis for whom a 2 cm forehead advancement has been done, the following results being very encouraging.