Prevalence of congenital abnormalities in Turkish school children.
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).
Yücesan
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Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Ankara, Turkey.
Dindar
H
H
Olcay
I
I
Okur
H
H
Kiliçaslan
S
S
Ergören
Y
Y
Tüysüz
C
C
Koca
M
M
Civilo
B
B
Sen
I
I
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