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Research in Pediatrics & Neonatology

Holoprosencephaly: A Case Study for Communicative and Swallowing Management

  • Open or Close Muzeyyen Ciyiltepe1* and Zafer Unsal Coskun2

    1 Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Anadolu University Faculty of Health Sciences, Turkey

    2 Department of Radiology, Giresun Medical University, Turkey

    *Corresponding author: Nigam P Narain, Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Patna Medical College, India

Submission: December 15, 2017; Published: August 13, 2018

ISSN : 2576-9200
Volume2 Issue5

Abstract

Holoprosencephaly (HP) is a developmental central nervous system defect characterized by advanced facial anomalies resulting from the complete separation of two lobes of the cerebral hemispheres Golden [1]. Prevalence is 1.31 in 10,000 births (Kahyaoglu, 2013). There is a parallel relationship between the combination of different etiological factors in different contributions and the changing clinical picture of the disease.

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