1. The Single Transverse Palmar Crease in Infants and Children
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P A, DAVIES and V, SMALLPEICE
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Pediatrics ,Genetics, Medical ,Statistics as Topic ,Congenital Abnormalities ,Single transverse palmar crease ,Developmental Neuroscience ,Infant Mortality ,medicine ,Humans ,Outpatient clinic ,Dermatoglyphics ,Child ,Fetal Death ,Gynecology ,Fetal death ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,Hand ,Infant newborn ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Ligne ,Neurology (clinical) ,Neonatal death ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Infant, Premature - Abstract
UMMARY 1,500 newborn infants, 1,000 children attending a paediatric outpatient clinic, and 811 primary school children were examined for the presence of a single transverse palmar crease. The incidence was found to be 5.3, 3.0 and 1.7 per cent respectively. In the 96 parents and siblings of the outpatient group the incidence was 7.3 per cent. In the newborn there was a higher incidence of prematurity, neonatal death, stillbirth and congenital abnormality among those with single transverse creases. The diffuse nature of some of the congenital abnormalities was noted in both newborn and outpatient groups. Among the babies with single transverse creases classified as premature many were small for their dates rather than premature by gestation. RESUME La ligne palmaire transversale unique chez les nouveau-nes et les enfants On a recherche la presence d'une ligne palmaire transversale unique chez 1.500 nouveaunes, 1.000 enfants suivant la consultation externe de pediatrie et 118 enfants d'une ecole primaire. On a trouve que l'incidence etait de 5,3 pour cent, 3 pour cent et 1,7 pour cent respectivement. Chez les 96 parents et collateraux du groupe de la consultation externe l'incidence etait de 7,3 per cent. Chez les nouveau-nes l'incidence des naissances prematurees, deces neonatals, naissances d'enfants morts et anomalies congenitales etait plus elevee chez ceux ayant une ligne transversale unique. On a note la nature diffuse de certaines des anomalies congenitales dans le groupe des nouveau-nes et celui de la consultation externe. Parmi les bebes ayant une unique ligne transversale beaucoup etaient petits par rapport aux dates plutot que prematures par gestation.
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- 2008
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