(1) Bony anomalies encountered in the 'no neck' form of Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) are a wide, short, fused, bifid, retroflexed spinal canal; craniolacunia, cranium bifidum, and acrania.
(2) 8 of the 50 had a retroflexed uterus and 2 of those were displacement cases, suggesting that anomaly of position could be a predisposition for ectopia.
(3) Each subject, by means of computerized stabilometric platform, has been submitted to the sensitized test with head retroflexed.
(4) Most perforations occur at the time of insertion; insertion during the early postpartum period or during the period of lactational amenorrhoea, or in the case of an undiagnosed pregnant uterus or an acutely anteflexed or retroflexed uterus can be the cause.
(5) The head is not retroflexed, and the tongue is not supported by an endoscope as in direct laryngoscopy.
(6) During a period of 18 months with a history of chronic pelvic pain symptomatology (severe dysmenorrhea, severe dyspareunia, extramenstrual pain) retroverted or retroflexed uterus, and infertility were subjected to laparoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes as well.
(7) Prior ultrasound of this area was significantly limited by bowel loops anterior to the retroflexed uterine body and cervix, which were displaced cephalad out of the pelvic inlet and were not seen.
(8) This tracing technique labeled, in a Golgi-like manner, the neurons which initiate the fasciculi retroflexes and revealed details of their morphological pattern.
(9) This case report presents a full-term pregnancy in a retroflexed uterus.
(10) An insufficiently full bladder, a retroflex uterus, echoes caused by the intestine, and obesity made the ultrasonic scanning more difficult.
(11) The features of interest are sonorant, syllabic, consonantal, high, back, front, and retroflex.
(12) We describe a fetus with hydrocephalus and the cranial and cervical findings of iniencephaly (enlarged foramen magnum, fusion of the upper cervical vertebrae, and a retroflexed, webbed neck) who had an unusual palatal abnormality ("palatal anteversion").
(13) Finally, the retroflexed uterine position does not appear to increase the risk of abnormal outcomes.
(14) Two cases of retroflexed holoprosencephaly are presented.
(15) A tortuous retroflexed innominate artery can simulate a right apical mass.
(16) Secondary dysmenorrhea means pathological organic alterations of the genital tract: uterus myomatosus, endometrial polyps, endometriosis, and retroflexed uterus.
(17) The fetus remained fixed in the same position with the head retroflexed during each consecutive exam.
(18) Examination revealed a retroflexed uterus with the cervical opening pointing toward the anterior abdominal wall.
(19) The GIF-P2-prototype with four-way tip control and ability to retroflex 180 degree up, 60 degree down, and 100 degree right and left was superior to GIF-P1 and CF-P-prototype for visualization of the entire esophagus, stomach, duodenal bulb, and postbulbar area in patients less than 10 years old.
(20) The common phenotypic features of this syndrome include growth failure and mental or developmental retardation, hypotonia, persistent lanugo, distorted head, congenital glaucoma, short and upturned nose, prominent maxilla, micrognathia, short, webbed neck, short limbs, retroflexed third and fourth toes, cutaneous syndactyly of the second, third and fourth toes, and elevated galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase activity in the red blood cells.
Retroflexion
Definition:
(n.) The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important differential diagnostic problems involve anencephaly with spinal retroflexion and the Klippel-Feil syndrome.
(2) Iniencephaly is a very rare malformation comprising a bone defect at the occiput, malformation of the cervical and thoracic vertebrae, spina bifida, and retroflexion of the head.
(3) It is associated with a defect in the occiput, alterations in the spinal column that are variable and retroflexion of the fetus.
(4) Moreover, the authors provided evidence that the area of the dural sac diminishes significantly in retroflexion, as compared with the neutral position in subjects with a normal spinal canal as well as in subjects with congenital stenosis of the spinal canal.
(5) Because of our good results, we make a plea for expectant management of retroflexion of the pregnant uterus.
(6) It is suggested that for precision the term "spinal retroflexion" should be used after duly prefixing it by an appropriate word (severe, moderate or mild) indicating the degree of retroflexion observed.
(7) The findings show that retroflexion in this variant of anencephaly can be classified into severe, moderate and mild forms.
(8) Retroflexion of the head with exaggerated cervicothoracic lordosis is always present, and CNS malformations in the form of anencephaly, spina bifida and encephalocele are often present.
(9) It is discussed that, though the anencephalies with severe or moderate degree of cervical retroflexion resemble iniencephaly in their features of spinal retroflexion, those having mild retroflexion are contrasted and should not be categorised with iniencephaly.
(10) The incidence of retroflexion in holoprosencephaly was apparently higher than that of ordinary subdural hygromas.
(11) A frequent feature is pain on retroflexion of the head.
(12) Iniencephaly is a rare, lethal, axial dysraphic malformation complex diagnosed on the basis of three cardinal features: deficiency of the occipital bone, cervicothoracic spinal retroflexion, and rachischisis.
(13) Case analysis indicates that retroflexion results from subdural fluid collection.
(14) This fetus is especially interesting as it presents anencephaly, supporting the view of classifying together iniencephaly and anencephaly with retroflexion.
(15) Anteflexion and retroflexion movements of the cervical spine were recorded cineradiographically during three measuring sessions to determine reproducibility as well as intraindividual and interindividual variability of segmental instantaneous centers of rotation (recorded as "averaged" and "standard").
(16) The not viable, female newborn had a malformation causing an extremely retroflexion of the head.
(17) No explanation could be found for this persisting retroflexion during pregnancy.
(18) Fetal eye, mouth, rotation, and retroflexion of the head were observed by real-time ultrasound.
(19) The objective of the presented work was to investigate anatomical structures of the cervial spine and their interrelations on cervical myelograms in a neutral position and in retroflexion.
(20) The area of the dural sac increases during anteflexion and diminishes in retroflexion, as compared with the neutral position.