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British Journal of Midwifery, 2019 The trauma of a diagnosis of a life-limiting condition is compounded by the difficulty of making ethical and legal decisions about a baby's future. George Winter examines the case of anencephaly
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Acrania-exencephaly-anencephaly sequence
Journal of Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, 2021 Acrania–exencephaly–anencephaly sequence is rare forms of neural tube defects. The progression is from a relatively normal-appearing exposed brain due to an absent cranium called as acrania, to an amorphous brain mass term as exencephaly.
Sunil Vitthalrao Jagtap +4 more
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Craniospinal rachischisis with multiple anomalies in an anencephalic fetus: A rare case report
Journal of the Scientific Society, 2014 Neural tube defects (NTDs) are the most common malformations accounting for 0.5-1.3 cases/1000 live births with multifactorial etiology. Anencephaly and craniospinal rachischisis are open NTDs.
Hema Basappa Bannur +3 more
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Risk Factors of Anencephaly: A Case–Control Study in Dessie Town, North East Ethiopia
Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 2021 Melese Abebe,1 Mekbeb Afework,2 Bahru Emamu,3 Demissie Teshome4 1Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, College of Health Science, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia; 2Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa
Abebe M, Afework M, Emamu B, Teshome D
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Rare association of cyclopia with craniospinal rachischisis
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2019 Cyclopia is a severe form of holoprosencephaly which results in children being born with just one eye, absence of nose and presence of a proboscis above the median eye. Incidence of cyclopia is around 1.05 in 1, 00,000 births, including stillbirths.
Lynda D Rodrigues +2 more
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Prenatal Sonographic Image of Sirenomelia with Anencephaly and Craniorachischisis Totalis
Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2018 Sirenomelia is a rare congenital malformation characterized by varying degrees of fusion of the lower extremities. It is commonly associated with severe urogenital and gastrointestinal malformations; however, the association of sirenomelia with ...
Takako Sugiura +3 more
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Rare and severe neural tube defect: Craniorachischisis totalis
Clinical Case Reports, 2022 Craniorachischisis totalis is an uncommon and severe form of neural tube defect. It is characterized by anencephaly and spina bifida throughout the vertebral column accompanied by herniation of neural tissue and meninges.
Faten Limaiem, Kaouther Dimassi
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Study of Central Nervous System Malformations of Perinatal Autopsies [PDF]
Perspectives In Medical Research, 2023 Background: Congenital malformations remain a common cause of perinatal deaths accounting for 10-15% in developing countries like India. They are the most severe disorders of the central nervous system.
Anuradha G Patil +3 more
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Patologìâ, 2017 The principles of the human spinal cord development constitute the basis for understanding of appearance of congenital abnormalities of the CNS development, which make 7 % of the total number of malformations in the embryonic period of human’s ...
V. S. Shkolnikov, S. V. Vernygorodskyi
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Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2020 Background: Anencephaly is a common but lethal form of neural tube defect which occurs as a result of failure of closure of the rostral neuropore. There is no data on this lethal congenital anomaly in our community.
Abiodun I. Okunlola +6 more
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