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A Silent Epidemic of Gross Congenital malformations in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: Hospital-Based Study

2021-04-28

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<h4>Background: </h4> Congenital malformations are defects of the morphogenesis of organs or body during the pregnancy period and are identifiable at pre- or postnatal. It is identified as the major cause of child mortality worldwide. There is a need to understand the prevalence of congenital malformations in Tigray in particular and Ethiopia in general as surveillance data are lacking. Hence, this study was desig...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-389997/v2

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