Comparação da prevalência das anomalias de vértebras cervicais superiores em pacientes com fissura de lábio e/ou palato e pacientes sem fissura / Prevalence comparison of upper cervical vertebral anomalies in patients with cleft lip and/or palate and noncleft patients

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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One of the possible mechanisms for cleft palate development is represented by the congenital anomalies of the vertebral spine. Correlation of cleft different types with associated anomalies may enhance the understanding on the embryonic phenomena and processes of malformation The studies have observed a relationship between cleft palate and vertebral anomalies. Vertebral anomalies are more often seen in cleft patients than in the control group, although the distribution of the anomalies between the cleft types is scarcely studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of upper cervical vertebrae anomalies in patients with isolated cleft lip, isolated cleft palate, complete cleft lip and palate and in non cleft patients, and compare the prevalence of these anomalies between groups and between genders. The sample was composed of 300 lateral cephalograms of patients with clefts and 300 lateral cephalograms of patients without clefts of both genders. There was statistical significant difference in the prevalence of cervical anomalies in the cleft group (38,67%) when compared with the noncleft sample (31,00%). In this way, the study confirms the probable association between clefts and cervical anomalies, but further research is needed. There were no statistical significant difference neither when the types of cleft were compared with each other nor when both sexes were compared in the two samples, control group and cleft group.

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vértebras cervicais anomaly cervical vertebra anomalia cleft lip/palate fissura labiopalatina

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