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  • Book
    Samuel Berkowitz, editor.
    Summary: Cleft Lip and Palate: Diagnosis and Management is an unparalleled review of treatment concepts in all areas of cleft involvement presented by an international team of experienced clinicians. A unique feature of the book is that it largely consists of longitudinal facial and palatal growth studies of dental casts, photographs, panorexes, and cephalographs from birth to adolescence. Throughout the discussion of growth and treatment concepts, the importance of differential diagnosis in treatment planning is underscored. The underlying argument is that all of the treatment goals - good speech, facial aesthetics, dental occlusion, and psychological development - may be realized without the need to sacrifice one for another.In this third edition, further successful physiological treatment protocols are considered and the occurrence and prevention of relapses after some surgical treatments are discussed; again, all solutions are backed up by follow-up records. Additional topics not previously covered include strategies for coping with psychological effects on patients and intra-team conflict, the excellent clinical work being undertaken in Asia, and future multicenter palatal growth studies. It is the editor's hope that, by drawing on the wealth of experience contained in the book, clinicians will be better able to evaluate current treatment practices and concepts and to improve planning of their own treatment procedures.

    Contents:
    Part I. Facial embryology and neonatal palatal cleft morphology
    Part II. Types of clefts
    Part III. Facial growth in cleft palate children
    Part IV. Audiology/otology
    Part V. Effects of surgery and how it was utilized
    Part VI. Lip and palate surgery: Millard-Berkowitz protocol
    Part VII. Another tested good surgical procedure
    Part VIII. Facial growth: time in the patient's ally
    Part IX. Presurgical orthopedics
    Part X. Midfacial orthodonic/orthopedic and/or surgical changes
    Part XI. Orthognathic surgery
    Part XII. Distraction osteogenesis
    Part XIII. Speech
    Part XIV. Third world cleft treatment
    Part XV. Psychological/team function
    Part XVI. Multicenter clinical reports
    Part XVII. Recording patient orthodontic/surgical findings.
    Digital Access Springer 2013
  • Article
    Assaad F, Borecka I.
    Bull World Health Organ. 1977;55(4):445-53.
    In 1963, the World Health Organization established a system for the collection and distribution of information on viruses. The present study is based on 2737 reports of fatal viral infections received from laboratories in 39 out of a total of 47 countries participating in the scheme. In the industrially developed countries, from which most of the reports came, more than one-third of the total number of deaths were associated with influenza A virus, while in the developing countries, the enteroviruses, and in particular poliovirus, came high on the list.In general, a steady increase in the number of reports received by WHO has been noted, especially during the last three years. The greatest variations in the yearly number of reports were seen in those concerning influenza A virus, and coincided with the clinical and epidemiological patterns observed since the advent of the A/Hong Kong/68 strain.In children, death was most frequently associated with enteroviruses, and in adults, with influenza A virus. However, some of the viruses, and in particular herpesvirus, were reported in both children and adults.Overall, respiratory diseases were the most frequent cause of death, mainly because of influenza A virus infection; next most frequent were herpesvirus infections, especially of the central nervous system, and particularly among young adults. The findings in this study confirm that it is the most serious central nervous system viral infection in the developed world.In contrast to the above, the enteroviruses are still the most important killers in the developing world and the cases occur among infants and young children. Poliovirus, in particular type 1, is still the most prevalent.
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