Article
Congenital diaphragmatic defects: proposal for a new classification based on observations in 234 patients.
Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society - 1 Jan 2000
Ackerman Kate G, Vargas Sara O, Wilson Jay A, Jennings Russell W, Kozakewich Harry P W, Pober Barbara R
Abstract excerpt
Congenital diaphragmatic defects (CDDs) are a common group of birth defects, yet we presently know little about their pathogenesis. No systematic study documenting the detailed morphology of CDD has been performed, and current classification schemata of diaphragm phenotypes incompletely capture the location and extent of diaphragmatic involvement. To define the range of CDD anatomy, diaphragmatic pathology was...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Autopsy
- Diaphragm
- Hernia, Diaphragmatic
- Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Phenotype