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Illness finder is a diagnostic medicine tool for educational purpose that looks up your patients' health conditions or symptoms and diagnosis and find diseases or illnesses based on chosen gender, age, risk factors, illness, signs, symptoms and prevalence. Illnessfinder is inspired by Evidence based medicine (EMB) and healthcare that aims to apply the best (most reliable) knowledge that is available at decision time. Illnessfinder aims to free up time for the therapeutic dialogue and ensure quality at the evidence based practice, uniting proven medical findings and clinical evidence with systematised data technology.
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Congenital Absence of Brain,Brain Congenital Absence,Anencephalia,Anencephalias,Anencephalus,Absence of Brain, Congenital,Incomplete Anencephaly,Anencephaly, Incomplete,Partial Anencephaly,Anencephalies, Partial,Anencephaly, Partial,Partial Anencephalies,Hemicranial Anencephaly,Anencephaly, Hemicranial,Aprosencephaly,Aprosencephalies
Description
Anencephaly: A malformation of the nervous system caused by failure of the anterior neuropore to close. Infants are born with intact spinal cords, cerebellums, and brainstems, but lack formation of neural structures above this level. The skull is only partially formed but the eyes are usually normal. This condition may be associated with folate deficiency. Affected infants are only capable of primitive (brain stem) reflexes and usually do not survive for more than two weeks. (From Menkes, Textbook of Child Neurology, 5th ed, p247)
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