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V Uuspää

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PubMed1978

Anophthalmia and agenesis of columnella, prolabium and premaxilla without hypotelorism-a new syndrome? Case reports.

Three patients with a syndrome consisting of anophthalmia, midline upper lip pseudocleft with absent columnella, prolabium and premaxilla, but without hypo- or hypertelorism are presented, together with three borderline cases with an- or microphthalmia and lacking distal half of the nose or cleft lip and palate. The pathogenesis and relations to other facial anomalies are discussed.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗
PubMed1978

Upper extremity deformities associated with the orofacial clefts.

A material of 89 cases of upper extremity deformities, among the 3225 cleft patients born during the period 1950-75, and treated in the Finnish Red Cross Cleft Centre is presented. About two-thirds of the patients had an isolated cleft palate--half of the male and nearly all of the female patients. The percentage of upper extremity deformities appearing with the different types of the orofacial clefts was, for clefts of the primary palate 2.0: specifically for cleft lip 0.8, cleft lip--palate 2.6, and cleft lip and palate 3.6; and for clefts of the secondary palate 3.5: specifically for cleft palate 3.7, submucous cleft palate 1.6; and for the branchial arch syndrome (lateral cleft) 5.2; the total average being 2.8 percent. About one-third of the patients were dwarfs, most of them diastrophic dwarfs. Syndactyly was somewhat more common among cleft patients, 0.3%, than in the average population. Polydactyly, 0.1% was about as common as the average. Ectrodactyly was more common among cleft patients, 0.4%, than either syndactyly or polydactyly that are considered the most common hand deformities among the general population. The syndactyly cases were more complicated than the average, among them 4 cases of Apert syndrome were noted. About three-fourths of the 89 patients had multiple deformities.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗
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Anatomical interposition arthroplasty with dermal graft. A study of 51 elbow arthroplasties on 48 rheumatoid patients.

Seventy anatomical interposition arthroplasties of the elbow joint without ulnar nerve transposition were performed on 67 rheumatoid patients by one surgeon during the years 1978-1984. Between 1 and 6 years after arthroplasty, 51 arthroplasties were re-examined, the average follow-up being 3 years. There were 48 patients, 44 female (aged 25 to 66 years, mean 51) and four male, (aged 59 to 69 years, mean 63). The duration of the rheumatoid disease (46 cases of rheumatoid arthritis, 2 of juvenile chronic arthritis) was 4 to 33 years, mean 17 years. The disease was clinically active in 47 cases. ESR ranged from 12 to 82, mean 50. 51 elbow joints, 32 right (31 dominant), 19 left (2 dominant), had been affected for six months to 29 years, mean 8 years. 21 joints had been operated on one to four times before arthroplasty. Preoperative radiological joint destruction was of Larsen grade IV in 45 cases and of grade V in six cases. Flexion contracture was diminished from preoperative 0 degrees to 70 degrees, mean 38 degrees, to postoperative 0 degrees to 70 degrees, mean 25 degrees. Range of flexion was improved from preoperative 20 degrees to 150 degrees, mean 90 degrees, to postoperative 40 degrees to 145 degrees, mean 109 degrees. Before arthroplasty there were ulnar nerve symptoms in 13 cases, two of which had temporary ulnar symptoms postoperatively, too. After arthroplasty, eight patients had ulnar nerve symptoms, five of which had had previous operations of the joint.

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