title: Prevalence of congenital abnormalities in Turkish school children.
abstract: 19750 school children, ages 6 to 15 years, were examined by the authors of this study, 1,220 (6.18%) had congenital abnormalities. In this group, 4.23% were boys and 1.88% were girls. Case histories revealed inbreeding amongst the parents (families) of children with congenital malformation to be 8.9% and 8.2% for the rest of the families in this study. There were 27 different congenital abnormalities identified, with prevalence rates of 0.05/1,000 to 15.85/1,000. The most prevalent abnormalities were umbilical hernia (15.85/1000), inguinal hernia (14.50/1,000), pectus carinatum and excavatum (7.68/1,000), undescended testes (9.00/1,000 boys), congenital nevus (3.54/1,000), retractile testis (4.45/1,000 boys), pilonidal sinus (2.63/1,000), pes planus (2.28/1,000), and hemangioma (1.16/1,000). Of the 19,750 children, 70 had multiple anomalies (3.75/1,000).
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yücesan
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dindar
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Olcay
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okur
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kiliçaslan
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ergören
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tüysüz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koca
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Civilo
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sen
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000453:epidemiology; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D000013:Congenital Abnormalities / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology