Impact of storage duration and short periods of incubation during egg storage on embryonic development and hatching traits of hybrid chicken strain.

The study assessed chicken egg storage duration and short periods of incubation during egg storage (SPIDES) on embryo development. Eggs samples from 310 eggs from 72-week-old hybrid layer breeder flocks were divided and stored at 16 °C and 75% RH for 1, 4, 7, 10, 14, 17, and 21 days (D). Some eggs were also divided between 14D and 21D alone and stored.

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Multidisciplinary Cleft Clinic.

Background: A retrospective review of cleft lip and palate surgeries at our hospital during 2001-2005 showed an increase in patients treated per year. The aim of the study was to review the activities of the clinic, hence to determine the variation in number of cleft lip and palate cases and surgeries from 2006 to 2009, and also to identify the commonest type of cleft cases during the same period.

Methods: Data for this retrospective study were obtained from the outpatient department records of the cleft clinic and operating theater.

Cleft lip and palate surgery in Kumasi, Ghana: 2001-2005.

Background: A retrospective review of cleft lip operations at our hospital during 1991-2000 showed that on average 17 patients per year were operated on for cleft lip and palate and that each year saw an increasing number of patients being treated. The purpose of this study was to determine the change that had occurred in the number of patients treated for cleft lip and palate during the five-year period from 2001-2005.

Patients And Methods: This is a retrospective review of cleft lip and palate operations carried out under general anesthesia at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.