Iniencephaly is a rare but almost always lethal neural tube defect with the following cardinal
features: occipital bone defect, partial or total absence of cervicothoracal vertebrae and fetal …

Iniencephaly is a rare form of neural tube defect with an incidence of 0.1-10 in 10,000
pregnancies. It is characterized by the presence of occipital bone defects at foramen …

About a third of anencephalic fetuses are born alive, but they are not conscious or viable,
and soon die. This neural tube defect can be limited by dietary consumption of foliates, and …

Neural-tube defects (NTD), including anencephaly, meningomyelocele, and complete
rachischisis, account for the great majority of congenital defects of the central nervous …

Background Neural tube defects (NTDs) are the most common congenital anomalies of the
central nervous system. Prevalence of NTDs varies depending on geographic region and …

Background: Neural tube defects (NTDs) including spina bifida and anencephaly are the
second most common birth defects with 2.8 per 1000 births in northern Iran. Objectives: This …

Objective: Neural tube defects (NTDs) are congenital disorders that significantly increase the
risk of death and disability in the 1 st year of life. The aim of this study was to retrospectively …

Objective: To calculate several epidemiologic parameters of the three neural tube defects,
namely, anencephaly, spina bifida and encephaloceles in the Irbid province located in the …

The primitive nervous system begins as a flat neural plate 2 weeks after conception, having
arisen from ectoderm. This plate becomes indented by a long itudinal groove at 20 days with …

Congenital malformations constitute a public health problem in Mexico, affecting
approximately 2-6% of newborns. Central nervous system malformations are the second …