UNSW Embryology

Abnormal Development- Australian Statistics

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Page Links Introduction All Major Malformations Percentage All Major Malformations Malformations/10,000 Births
Percentage of All Malformations by SystemsNervous Senses Head and Neck Cardiovascular Respiratory Gastrointestinal Tract Urogenital Musculoskeletal Integumentary

Introduction

Data groupings and classification as Major or Minor Abnormalities are based on that used by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Perinatal Statistics Unit, UNSW and published in Congenital Malformations Australia 1981-92.

For individual systems, data shown as a % of all Major Abnormalities based upon published statistics using the same groupings as CMA 81-92. Please note that some congenital diseases involve more than one system.

The classification groups for Major and Minor Abnormalities are also shown.

Nervous System

LinkNeural Abnormalities Neural Dev

Senses

Head and Neck

LinkHead Abnormalities Head Dev

Cardiovascular System

LinkCardiovascular Abnormalities Cardiovascular Dev

Respiratory System

LinkRespiratory Abnormalities Respiratory Dev

Digestive System

LinkGIT Abnormalities GIT Dev

Urogenital System

LinkUrogen Abnormalities Urogen Dev

Musculoskeletal System

LinkMusculoskel Abnormalities Musculoskeletal Dev

Integumentary System

About Notes

Lecture notes from the Embryology course compiled and written by Dr Mark Hill.
Original Data source for graphs from Congenital Malformations Australia 1981-1992, P. Lancaster and E. Pedisich, ISSN 1321-8352.

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