[Ambroise Paré and the frog].
During the XVIth century, Ambroise Paré described the birth of a child with a " frog head". The occurrence of the malformation was explained by a "medical" treatment, which implied that the mother must take a frog in her hand. It was supposed that the abnormality could be a macrostomia, due to a lack of fusion of maxillar and mandibular buds. We present here a postmortem specimen of macrostomia, with CT scanner exploration. Differential diagnosis with a cyclotocephaly is discussed.
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Laboratoire d'Anatomie et Embryologie, Faculté de Médecine, U.L.B., Bruxelles.
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D000818:Animals; D001530:Belgium; D001680:Biographies as Topic; D005260:Female; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008265:Macrostomia; D011247:Pregnancy; D011898:Ranidae