VACTERL association

02/01/2011 - "We report an original observation in an 8-month-old infant, operated in the neonatal period for esophageal atresia type III in the context of VACTERL syndrome, cystic dilatation of the bile duct, and pancreatic heterotopia."
06/01/2010 - "A wide clinical spectrum from esophageal atresia to VACTERL association. "
01/01/2005 - "Esophageal atresia first led to the diagnosis of VACTERL association, which is more frequent and well known, showing that the identification of such malformative association may be challenging. "
05/01/1992 - "During a 10-year period, 313 infants were treated at the Hospital for Sick Children for esophageal atresia, of whom 46 had features of the VACTERL association. "
06/15/1974 - " Of 345 cases of esophageal atresia studied, no single case of VACTEL association was observed, although 55% of the cases had malformations. "

04/01/2013 - "Studies consider sirenomelia as the most severe form of caudal dysgenesis, VACTERL association, or axial mesodermal dysplasia, although others still support the idea of a different pathologic entity. "
06/01/2008 - "[Sirenomelia as a part of VACTERL association: a study of three cases]."
07/01/2012 - "The clinical phenotypic overlap between caudal dysgenesis, VACTERL association and sirenomelia in our patients is highlighted, lending support to the theory that these entities may be different manifestations of a single pathogenic process."
07/01/2010 - "Sirenomelia and VACTERL association are defects of blastogenesis of unknown cause. "
07/01/2010 - "Sirenomelia and VACTERL association in the offspring of a woman with diabetes."

12/01/2013 - "Second study on the recurrence risk of isolated esophageal atresia with or without trachea-esophageal fistula among first-degree relatives: no evidence for increased risk of recurrence of EA/TEF or for malformations of the VATER/VACTERL association spectrum."
01/01/2014 - "The VATER/VACTERL association is typically defined by the presence of at least three of the following congenital malformations: vertebral anomalies, anal atresia, cardiac malformations, tracheo-esophageal fistula, renal anomalies, and limb abnormalities (13). "
02/01/2013 - "The VATER/VACTERL association is typically defined by the presence of at least 3 of the following congenital malformations: Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac malformations, Tracheo-Esophageal fistula, Renal anomalies, and Limb abnormalities. "
10/01/2012 - "These anomalies were diagnosed VACTERL--association that must include at least three out of six principal anomalies of previously mentioned, e.g., (1) V--vertebral defects, (2) A--anal atresia, (3) C--cardiac anomalies, (4) TE--tracheo-esophageal fistula, (5) R--renal anomalies, and (6) L--limb abnormalities. "
10/01/2012 - "The VATER/VACTERL association is typically defined by the presence of at least three of the following congenital malformations: vertebral anomalies, anal atresia, cardiac malformations, tracheo-esophageal fistula, renal anomalies, and limb abnormalities. "

11/01/1985 - "This paper reports the results of the first population-based study of the aetiology of VACTERL-association (i.e., the occurrence of three or more closely defined VACTERL-type abnormalities without other major congenital abnormalities). "
01/01/2015 - "The vertebral, anal, cardiac, tracheoesophageal, renal, and limb birth defects (VACTERL) association is a rare, non-random constellation of congenital abnormalities among which urinary tract anomalies can be included. "
06/01/2014 - "VACTERL association is a rare disorder that involves congenital abnormalities in multiple organs including the kidney and urinary tract in up to 60% of the cases. "
07/01/2013 - "VACTERL association is a non-random association of birth defects of unknown etiology derived from structures of embryonic mesoderm. "
02/01/2013 - "VACTERL association is a spectrum of birth defects which includes vertebral, anal, cardiovascular, tracheo-oesophageal, renal and limb anomalies. "

08/15/2005 - "Should chromosome breakage studies be performed in patients with VACTERL association?"
01/01/2004 - "We performed the chromosomal breakage test in 34 patients with probable FA and 83 patients with clinical conditions that could suggest FA, but are not usually screened by the DEB test: 20 patients with aplastic anemia, 20 patients with VACTERL association, 20 with radial ray abnormalities, 7 with tracheo-esophageal fistulae, 12 with anal atresia, and 4 with myelodysplastic syndrome. "
01/02/1996 - "Clinical manifestations and chromosome breakage, consistent with Fanconi anemia, in patients with a prior diagnosis of either Baller-Gerold syndrome, reported earlier in one other patient [Farrell et al., 1994: Am J Med Genet 50:98-99], or with VACTERL association with hydrocephalus, recently reported in 3 patients [Toriello et al., 1991: Proc Greenwood Genet Center 11:142; Porteus et al., 1992: Am J Med Genet 43:1032-1034], underline the clinical heterogeneity of Fanconi anemia and raise the question of whether these syndromes are distinct disorders or phenotypic variations of the same disease."
01/02/1996 - "Two brothers with presumed Baller-Gerold syndrome, one of whom was previously diagnosed with the association of vertebral, cardiac, renal, limb anomalies, anal atresia, tracheo-esophageal fistula (VACTERL) association with hydrocephalus, were evaluated for chromosome breakage because of severe thrombo cytopenia in one of them. "