%0 Journal Article
%T Caracterizaci¨®n cl¨ªnica del labio leporino con fisura palatina o sin ¨¦sta en Cuba
%A Roca Ortiz
%A . Joel Luis
%A Cend¨¢n Mu£¿iz
%A Isidro
%A Alonso Lotti
%A Francisca
%A Ferrero Oteiza
%A Mar¨ªa Emilia
%A Lantigua Cruz
%A Aracely
%J Revista Cubana de Pediatr£¿-a
%D 1998
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X 288 newborns with cleft lips with or without cleft palate, either associated or not to other types of defects, were detected among 8 004 malformed newborns included in the cuban birth defects register from april 1985 to december 1994. this defect alone was present in 77.4 % of cases whereas cleft palate was also present in two-thirds of cases. male newborns were predominant. left-hand anatomical defect location prevailed in both sexes. as to the associated defects, chromosomal syndromes accounting for 8 % were predominant from the pathogenic view point; in addition, the prevailing syndrome was trisomy 13 which was found in 21 cases.
%K cleft lip
%K cleft palate
%K cuba.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-75311998000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en